Texas City Eviction Risk: Moderate

61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Galveston County average of 46.2%. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.7% against 11.3% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points above the Galveston County average of 4.0. Average gross rent is $1,148, 12% below the Texas City average.

Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $50,596.

62% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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