Highland Lakes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Palm Harbor

Against Pinellas County at 53.4%, 79% of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $51,129 and the ratio lands at 60%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

At $2,571 a month, rents run 42% over what the rest of Palm Harbor commands. The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. The voucher gap is 30.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.6% against 31.5% nationally.

It sits 0.6 points above the Pinellas County average of 3.8. On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.