South Beach Eviction Risk: Lower , New Smyrna Beach

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The voucher gap is 22.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $2,099 a month, rents run 23% over what the rest of New Smyrna Beach commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 14 filings here across 3 tracked years. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 0.8 points below the Volusia County average of 3.8. Filings peaked in 2017 at 2.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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