Lafayette Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

The voucher gap is 18.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

At $1,251 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Lafayette commands. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters.

Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $48,787.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.