Beachtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Galveston

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Set annual rent against average income of $45,057 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against the Galveston County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,280, close to the Galveston average. 63% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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