Ben Bolt Eviction Risk: Lower

Adults with no health insurance runs 30.6% against 11.3% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Jim Wells County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

At $1,004 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Ben Bolt commands. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $82,917, annual rent is just 15%. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

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