Van Meter Eviction Risk: Lower

roughly one in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Dallas County average of 33.1%. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Against the Dallas County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

The filing record is not thin: 15 evictions over 2 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 6.3% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 11% 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 1.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $133,647, annual rent is just 10%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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