Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. At $789 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Lake Charles commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.

17% 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 softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $56,792, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0 closely. 44% 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.