Harlingen Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 42.3% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.4% against 31.5% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $731 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Harlingen commands. Against the Cameron County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Court records carry 8 eviction filings across 2 observed years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

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