The Drag Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

Against Travis County at 44.8%, 78% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 113% of average household income of $15,826, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 65%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

95% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Travis County average of 4.0. Average gross rent is $1,493, 14% below the Austin average.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10.

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