Water Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Selma

Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $21,429, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.8/10.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Housing insecurity runs 31.6% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. It sits 1.6 points above the Dallas County average of 5.0. 41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Dallas County average of 46.7%.

Court records carry 125 eviction filings across 11 observed years.

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