Fountain View Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harlingen

The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.4/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

At $671 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Harlingen commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 37 eviction filings across 3 observed years. It sits 0.7 points above the Cameron County average of 3.9.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 40% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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