South Lamar Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $54,409 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. 53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Travis County average of 44.8%. It sits 1.4 points above the Travis County average of 4.0.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 411 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2003, when 4.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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