East Guadalupe Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Marcos

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Against the Hays County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 6.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,304, close to the San Marcos average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $50,238.

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