Amarillo Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Potter County at 42.1%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $33,170 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 45.2% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

At $890 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Amarillo commands. It sits 0.9 points above the Potter County average of 3.7. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

53% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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