Southmost Eviction Risk: Elevated , Brownsville
Tract 48061013903 · Cameron, TX · pop 3,918 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 48061013903 (the Southmost area of Brownsville, Texas) comes in at 4.7/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 28% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 67% of renter households, a severe level, and 56% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,101 monthly, set against $33,036 in average yearly household income, roughly 40% of income at the averages. About 29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brownsville and the region
Centroid at 25.9010, -97.4629 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southmost scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Southmost compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%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)
- 34Total filings over 3 yrs
- 3.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.0%Peak (2015)
- 3Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Southmost
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 6.6/10. 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 in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 97th 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 34 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 3.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 5.0% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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