Brownsville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48061013204 · Cameron, TX · pop 1,843
Census tract 48061013204 covers Brownsville, home to 1,843 residents. For landlords it grades $1/10, a moderate reading. On the national scale it ranks #74,535 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 37% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $779 monthly, set against $39,688 in average yearly household income, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 31% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brownsville and the region
Centroid at 25.9225, -97.4347 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brownsville scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brownsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%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)
- 14Total filings over 3 yrs
- 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2016)
- 3Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Brownsville
What moves this score most is economic stress at 4.9/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Brownsville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Cameron County average of 4.5 and below the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 14 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 2.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 3.5% of renter households in 2016.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 89th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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