Southmost Eviction Risk: Elevated , Brownsville
Tract 48061013303 · Cameron, TX · pop 3,880 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
For landlords sizing up the Southmost neighborhood of Brownsville, census tract 48061013303 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It lands near the 22nd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
46% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 20% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $883 monthly, set against $43,106 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 51% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brownsville and the region
Centroid at 25.9247, -97.4546 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southmost scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Southmost compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%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)
- 55Total filings over 3 yrs
- 3.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.9%Peak (2016)
- 6Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Southmost
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 6.7/10. 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 about the same as the Cameron County average of 4.5 and below the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 3.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.9% of renter households in 2016.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 93rd 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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