Panama City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 12005001700 · Bay, FL · pop 2,608 · 96% of tract blocks fall in Panama City
How risky is Panama City for landlords? Census tract 12005001700 scores 4.6/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #61,767 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
73% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 55% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,149 a month while the average household earns $47,945 a year, roughly 29% of income at the averages. Renters make up 42% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Panama City and the region
Centroid at 30.1632, -85.6330 · click any tract to drill in
Why Panama City scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Panama City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 576Total filings over 10 yrs
- 10.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.9%Peak (2015)
- 66Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Panama City
What moves this score most is economic stress at 4.3/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Panama City, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Bay County average of 5.0 and below the Florida statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 99th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 576 eviction filings here over 10 tracked years, with about 10.8% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 14.9% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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