Galveston Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 46% of average household income of $22,944, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Adults with no health insurance runs 32.1% against 11.3% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.3/10.

The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Disability prevalence runs 50.7% against 31.5% nationally.

At $882 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Galveston commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

It sits 1.8 points above the Galveston County average of 4.0. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Galveston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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