Amarillo Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Randall County at 38.7%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,530, 40% above the Amarillo average. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The voucher gap is 32.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 0.9 points above the Randall County average of 3.7. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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