Southmost Eviction Risk: Moderate , Brownsville

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 filings here across 3 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 6.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters. It tracks the Cameron County average of 3.9 closely.

Average gross rent is $883, close to the Brownsville average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $43,106.

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.