Tech Ridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 66% 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, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Travis County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,656, close to the Austin average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $87,582.

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