Fort Lauderdale Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average income of $70,729 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 20.0% against 11.3% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 206 filings here across 4 tracked years. At $2,126 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Fort Lauderdale commands.

It sits 0.8 points above the Broward County average of 4.3. Filings peaked in 2016 at 10.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 10.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.