Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 53.1% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 54.4% against 31.5% nationally.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $32,868 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. At $902 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Lake Charles commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 43% of renters. 48% 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.