West Palm Beach Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.5/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 145 filings here across 11 tracked years. It sits 0.9 points below the Palm Beach County average of 4.1.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,797, close to the West Palm Beach average.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $91,024. 34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.