La Feria Eviction Risk: Moderate

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Cameron County average of 42.8%. The dominant input is housing-court posture at 8.7/10. Set annual rent against average income of $36,941 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Cameron County average of 3.9. The voucher gap is 16.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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