MLK Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. 36% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Travis County average of 44.8%.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $1,404 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Austin commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 689 filings here across 12 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 14.4% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 9.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 47% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.9/10.

Against average income of $104,850, annual rent is just 16%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Travis County average of 4.0 closely.

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