Lake Wales Eviction Risk: Lower

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

Against Polk County at 45.8%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $1,353 a month, rents run 22% over what the rest of Lake Wales commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 144 filings here across 17 tracked years.

Against the Polk County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2016, when 8.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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