Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Natchitoches

SNAP participation runs 41.6% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 41.1% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.1/10. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 39.2% across Natchitoches Parish. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

It sits 1.7 points above the Natchitoches Parish average of 5.1. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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