Los Puentes Eviction Risk: Lower , Brownsville

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Cost burden runs 54% here against 42.8% across Cameron County.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $742 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Brownsville commands. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 53 evictions over 3 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Cameron County average of 3.9 closely.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.