Kern Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , El Paso

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Adults with no health insurance runs 30.5% against 11.3% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $25,761, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

At $774 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of El Paso commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against El Paso County at 45.7%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 1.0 points above the El Paso County average of 3.9.

The filing record is not thin: 26 evictions over 1 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.8% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 1.8% 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.