Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 35.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Housing insecurity runs 38.9% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 51%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against Calcasieu Parish at 43.1%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $29,983, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Against the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Average gross rent is $1,016, 8% below the Lake Charles average. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.