Abbeville Residential Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $26,175, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running hot, economic stress reads 8.6/10. Against the Vermilion Parish average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. 31% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Vermilion Parish average of 35.5%. Average gross rent is $758, 9% below the Abbeville average.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10.

Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

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.