Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Lower

Against Calcasieu Parish at 43.1%, 77% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 10/10.

At $2,072 a month, rents run 87% over what the rest of Lake Charles commands. The voucher gap is 81.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 4.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.3 points cooler.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.