Covington Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. SNAP participation runs 3.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Cost burden runs 51% here against 44.8% across St. Tammany Parish. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Against the St. Tammany Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Severe burden reaches 8%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Housing insecurity runs 6.5% against 14.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $114,663, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,460, close to the Covington average.

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