Magnolia Ridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Baton Rouge

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $27,778, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.3/10.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 50.3%. Food insecurity runs 29.3% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 4.3. SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally. At $892 a month, rents run 16% 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 6.4/10, 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 household composition measure is the least pressured.

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