Forest Lake Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 70% here against 44.0% across Washington County. Average gross rent is $1,990, 40% above the Forest Lake average.

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. The voucher gap is 18.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 4% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Washington County average of 4.1 closely.

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.