Ocala Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Marion County average of 4.0.

The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,264, close to the Ocala average. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $47,642. 31% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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