The Ridge Eviction Risk: Lower , Lubbock

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Lubbock County average of 45.8%. Average gross rent is $1,358, 15% above the Lubbock average. The voucher gap is 13.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Against the Lubbock County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6/10.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $82,917.

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.