San Marcos Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against Hays County at 50.2%, 74% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Running hot, economic stress reads 9.8/10. Against the Hays County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Set annual rent against average income of $41,111 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Adults with no health insurance runs 25.6% against 11.3% nationally. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

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