Brownsville Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 27% here against 42.8% across Cameron County. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.8/10. Average gross rent is $842, 9% below the Brownsville average. Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Cameron County average of 3.9 closely. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $52,500.

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