Lakeland Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

At $1,029 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Lakeland commands. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Polk County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 20 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 1.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $111,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

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