Meridian Eviction Risk: Moderate

around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Lauderdale County average of 38.0%. Set annual rent against average income of $16,035 and the ratio lands at 62%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 47%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Housing insecurity runs 36.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Against the Lauderdale County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Adults with no health insurance runs 18.9% against 11.3% nationally. At $827 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Meridian commands.

That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, 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.