Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate

Annualized rent equals 61% of average household income of $22,451, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Disability prevalence runs 59.2% against 31.5% nationally. SNAP participation runs 62.9% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 58%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0. Against Calcasieu Parish at 43.1%, 48% of renters here are cost-burdened.

That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,147, close to the Lake Charles average. 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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