Portie Town Eviction Risk: Lower , Sulphur

At $1,576 a month, rents run 59% over what the rest of Sulphur commands. The voucher gap is 37.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 8.8/10.

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $48,558, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, 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. Food insecurity runs 28.5% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 40th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 21% 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. It tracks the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.