Mercedes Eviction Risk: Moderate

Adults with no health insurance runs 46.4% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 48%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 48.9% against 31.5% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10.

52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Hidalgo County average of 42.3%. It sits 1.5 points above the Hidalgo County average of 3.9.

At $718 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Mercedes commands. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.