Petal Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.3/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $849, 19% below the Petal average.

It sits 1.1 points below the Forrest County average of 4.1. SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.3/10. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $97,949, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MS average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.