Southmost Eviction Risk: Moderate , Brownsville

Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 42.8% across Cameron County. Adults with no health insurance runs 45.7% against 11.3% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $33,036 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $1,101, 19% above the Brownsville average. The voucher gap is 16.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 34 filings here across 3 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

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