San Benito Eviction Risk: Lower

The score leans hardest on housing-court posture at 8.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10. Average gross rent is $622, 26% below the San Benito average. Against Cameron County at 42.8%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $53,654, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Cameron County average of 3.9 closely.

35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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