San Benito Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48061011500 · Cameron, TX · pop 5,705
48061011500 is a census tract in San Benito, TX. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. Against Cameron County at 42.8%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Benito and the region
Centroid at 26.1327, -97.6251 · click any tract to drill in
Why San Benito scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow San Benito compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 85%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 88Total filings over 3 yrs
- 3.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.1%Peak (2018)
- 37Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in San Benito
Adults with no health insurance runs 37.2% against 11.3% nationally. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is housing-court posture at 8.8/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
It sits 1.3 points above the Cameron County average of 3.9. Court records carry 88 eviction filings across 3 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 4.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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