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Dinner Key Eviction Risk: Moderate , Miami

Tract 12086007101 · Miami-Dade, FL · pop 2,771 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

How risky is Dinner Key in Miami for landlords? Census tract 12086007101 scores 4.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 33% of US census tracts.

About 44% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,066 a month against an average household income of $77,616 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. About 51% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 29% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,195
Renter share51.0%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate14.5%
Median income$77,616

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#3 of 8 tracts In Dinner Key
Elevated
Within parent city
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#87 of 132 tracts In Miami
Low
Within county
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#278 of 706 tracts In Miami-Dade
Elevated
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#1,298 of 5,122 tracts In Florida
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Miami and the region

Centroid at 25.7319, -80.2491 · click any tract to drill in

Why Dinner Key scores 4.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Miami
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
14.5% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,066 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Miami
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Miami
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Miami
5.0

How Dinner Key compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Dinner Key risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.34.3This tracttract 007101Miami: 3.13.1Miamiparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.53.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 76

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 86Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 6.49%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.8%Peak (2015)
  • 38Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 99Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.74×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-01-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 3 filings (1.50× baseline)2020-02-01: 3 filings (3.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-02-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 5 filings (2.30× baseline)2021-05-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2021-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-07-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2021-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-09-01: 3 filings (4.48× baseline)2021-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-01-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-03-01: 1 filings (0.85× baseline)2022-04-01: 6 filings (2.76× baseline)2022-05-01: 5 filings (2.50× baseline)2022-06-01: 7 filings (5.98× baseline)2022-07-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2022-08-01: 3 filings (2.26× baseline)2022-09-01: 4 filings (5.97× baseline)2022-10-01: 1 filings (0.20× baseline)2022-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-12-01: 1 filings (1.20× baseline)2023-01-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-02-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2023-03-01: 8 filings (6.84× baseline)2023-04-01: 1 filings (0.46× baseline)2023-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (1.71× baseline)2023-07-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2023-08-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2023-09-01: 2 filings (2.99× baseline)2023-10-01: 1 filings (0.20× baseline)2023-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-12-01: 1 filings (1.20× baseline)2024-01-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-02-01: 5 filings (5.00× baseline)2024-03-01: 2 filings (1.71× baseline)2024-04-01: 3 filings (1.38× baseline)2024-05-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-06-01: 4 filings (3.42× baseline)2024-07-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2024-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-09-01: 3 filings (4.48× baseline)2024-10-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2024-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-02-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 1 filings (0.46× baseline)2025-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-07-01: 3 filings (2.00× baseline)2025-08-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2025-09-01: 1 filings (1.49× baseline)2025-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× 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 Dinner Key. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Dinner Key

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 6.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Miami eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Miami-Dade County average of 5.3 and in line with the Florida statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

The tract is Hispanic or Latino and Black and ranks around the 76th 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.

During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 0.74x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, a little under the pre-pandemic norm.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 12086007101

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12086007101?

Census tract 12086007101 in the Dinner Key neighborhood scores 4.3/10 (Moderate 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 12086007101?

Median gross rent is $1,066/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 12086007101?

14.5% of residents in tract 12086007101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,771.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 12086007101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 82th, minority 85th, housing 64th.
Q5

Is tract 12086007101 considered part of Dinner Key?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 12086007101 fall within Dinner Key (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 12086007101?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 86 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 12086007101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.49% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 12086007101 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Miami eviction risk), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 12086007101 compare to Miami overall?

Tract 12086007101 scores 4.3/10, higher than the parent city of Miami at 3.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Miami eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 12086007101 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 80% 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 Miami

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

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