New Dayton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Baton Rouge

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 36.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Food insecurity runs 56.9% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $23,303, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 50.3%.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. At $790 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Baton Rouge commands. It sits 1.1 points above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 4.3.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.