Lafayette Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 50.4% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 50.5% against 31.5% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $29,009, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Against the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Average gross rent is $913, 17% below the Lafayette average.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.