Smiley Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Baton Rouge

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 4.3. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $907 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Baton Rouge commands.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $41,394.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.