Martha's Vineyard Eviction Risk: Lower , Alvin

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,428, 18% above the Alvin average. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.8% against 11.3% nationally.

The voucher gap is 13.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. 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.

Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $110,588, annual rent is just 15%.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Brazoria County average of 3.8 closely.

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