Sarasota Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $1,070, 36% below the Sarasota average. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Sarasota County average of 50.3%. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 12 evictions over 5 years of observation.

It sits 0.8 points above the Sarasota County average of 3.8. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 3.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $54,868.

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.