Lakeland Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against the Polk County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.

Court records carry 138 eviction filings across 17 observed years. Against Polk County at 45.8%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Filings peaked in 2005 at 2.7% of renter households. At $1,271 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Lakeland commands.

In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $91,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 31% 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.