Lake Worth Beach Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs 72% here against 53.5% across Palm Beach County. Adults with no health insurance runs 38.6% against 11.3% nationally. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.

This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $46,169, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.9 points above the Palm Beach County average of 4.1.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 43.7% against 31.5% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 495 evictions over 11 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 7.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.