Royal Palm Estates Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9.4/10. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $59,131, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.1/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.3% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.5 points above the Palm Beach County average of 4.1.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $2,060 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Royal Palm Estates commands. Court records carry 745 eviction filings across 11 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 11.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 15.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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