Kern Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , El Paso

The poverty rate is 41%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 88% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.2% against 11.3% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Average gross rent is $821, 23% below the El Paso average. Against the El Paso County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Court records carry 12 eviction filings across 1 observed years.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the El Paso County average of 45.7%. The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.