Amarillo Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. Against Randall County at 38.7%, 48% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Adults with no health insurance runs 25.8% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,353, 24% above the Amarillo average. The voucher gap is 16.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

It sits 0.8 points above the Randall County average of 3.7. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Amarillo. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $61,298.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.