Meridian Eviction Risk: Moderate

61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Lauderdale County average of 38.0%. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. SNAP participation runs 33.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $31,823, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Housing insecurity runs 32.1% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 7.7/10. Against the Lauderdale County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, 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 socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $967, close to the Meridian average.

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.