Meridian Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average income of $31,420 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against Lauderdale County at 38.0%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.6/10.

Food insecurity runs 34.7% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

At $1,097 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Meridian commands. SNAP participation runs 26.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Lauderdale County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MS average is 4.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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