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Neighborhood · Ranked #10,727 of 84,120 nationally

Opa-locka Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 12086000509 · Miami-Dade, FL · pop 3,358 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 12086000509 covers part of the Opa-locka area of Opa-locka, FL, and scores 7.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,358. The severe-burden share is 35%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 18% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units997
Renter share46.2%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate29.3%
Median income$50,927

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 6 tracts In Opa-locka
High
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 5 tracts In Opa-locka
High
Within county
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 706 tracts In Miami-Dade
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 5,122 tracts In Florida
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Opa-locka and the region

Centroid at 25.9022, -80.2489 · click any tract to drill in

Why Opa-locka scores 7.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Opa-locka
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
29.3% poverty · this tract
7.3
Supply constraint
$1,195 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Opa-locka
8.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Opa-locka
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Opa-locka
9.0

How Opa-locka compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Opa-locka risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.4This tracttract 0005096.0Opa-lockaparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 167Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.73×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-01-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Miami as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Opa-locka. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Opa-locka

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. It sits 2.8 points above the Miami-Dade County average of 4.6. Adults with no health insurance runs 34.2% against 11.3% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,195 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Opa-locka commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Miami. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 12086000509

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12086000509?

Census tract 12086000509 in the Opa-locka neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 12086000509?

Median gross rent is $1,195/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 12086000509?

29.3% of residents in tract 12086000509 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,358.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 12086000509?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 61th, minority 88th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 12086000509 considered part of Opa-locka?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 12086000509 fall within Opa-locka (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 12086000509 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.73× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Miami eviction risk), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 12086000509 compare to Opa-locka overall?

Tract 12086000509 scores 7.4/10, higher than the parent city of Opa-locka at 6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Opa-locka; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 12086000509 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Opa-locka

Top eight tracts in Opa-locka ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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