Weslaco Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Hidalgo County at 42.3%, 28% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1/10.

On the high side, economic stress reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 45.5% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.1 points above the Hidalgo County average of 3.9.

Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $925, close to the Weslaco average. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $43,454.

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