Sarasota Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Cost burden runs 57% here against 50.3% across Sarasota County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 237 filings here across 5 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 9.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.1/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Sarasota County average of 3.8 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,687, close to the Sarasota average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.