Southmost Eviction Risk: Moderate , Brownsville

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 54.6% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 53%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 55.4% against 31.5% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $24,926, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

It sits 0.9 points above the Cameron County average of 3.9. The filing record is not thin: 36 evictions over 3 years of observation.

At $821 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Brownsville commands. The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.1% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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