Corpus Christi Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 48355002001 · Nueces, TX · pop 4,406
Corpus Christi anchors census tract 48355002001, which lands at 5.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #37,520 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
56% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 38% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,134 monthly, set against $42,500 in average yearly household income, roughly 32% of income at the averages. About 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Corpus Christi and the region
Centroid at 27.7576, -97.4052 · click any tract to drill in
Why Corpus Christi scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Corpus Christi compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 151Total filings over 4 yrs
- 6.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.3%Peak (2015)
- 71Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Corpus Christi
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 7.7/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Corpus Christi eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Nueces County average of 5.0 and above the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 151 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 6.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 11.3% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 48355002001
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