New Iberia Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 46.8% against 31.5% nationally.

It sits 1.6 points above the Iberia Parish average of 4.4. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. At $1,079 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of New Iberia commands.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.6/10. The voucher gap is 17.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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