Lakeland Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. At $1,096 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Lakeland commands.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 1,054 evictions over 17 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2007 at 13.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 9.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.4/10.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Polk County average of 3.9 closely.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $58,289. 47% 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.