Bee County, Texas Eviction Risk: Low

Bee County's average eviction-risk score of 2.1/10 (Low) signals a relatively measured operating environment for landlords across its 12 cities. Situated in south-central Texas, the county sits at rank 96 of 254 statewide, meaning 95 Texas eviction laws counties carry higher risk while 158 are more landlord-friendly, placing Bee County in the middle third of the state. With an average rent of $1,086 and a rent-burden rate of 37.5%, tenant finances are stretched enough to warrant careful screening, but the low risk scores suggest the local court and regulatory climate does not compound that pressure unduly.

The intra-county spread runs from 1.9 to 2.8, a range that is meaningful given the county's total population of roughly 17,965. Investors evaluating individual submarkets should not treat the county average as a proxy for every address: conditions vary meaningfully depending on which community a property sits in.

The cities inside Bee County

The highest-risk location in the county is Skidmore, scoring 2.8/10, with a population of 1,183. Tynan comes in second at 2.5/10 (population 61), followed by Normanna at 2.4/10. These smaller communities account for the upper end of the county range and deserve closer due diligence on vacancy, tenant quality, and local court volume before a landlord commits capital there.

At the opposite end, Lake City posts the county's lowest score at 1.9/10 (population 508). Beeville, by far the largest city in the county at 13,412 residents, scores 2/10, giving the county seat a meaningfully landlord-friendly profile relative to the county's smaller towns. Because risk is hyper-local here, a property in Beeville and a property in Skidmore can face materially different operating realities even though they share the same county courthouse and the same state statute.

State-level laws that apply here

Every eviction in Bee County proceeds under Texas eviction laws state law, specifically Tex. Prop. Code § 91 and § 92 (Residential Tenancies). The standard notice period is 3 days for non-payment of rent (whether first-time or habitually delinquent), lease violations, and holdover tenancies. Squatters and unauthorized occupants can be removed with no prior notice under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.011 as added by SB-38. Landlords should understand the Texas eviction laws eviction process fully before serving any notice, because timing errors at the notice stage reset the clock. An uncontested case typically resolves in 21 to 30 days; a contested matter runs 45 to 90 days.

On costs, the Texas eviction costs a landlord faces include a court filing fee of $54 to $125, a sheriff lockout fee of $50 to $175, and attorney fees that range from $500 to $3,500 depending on complexity. Texas eviction laws does not require just cause for eviction, imposes no rent control at the state level, and actively preempts local rent-control ordinances under TX Local Gov Code § 214.902, so landlords in Bee County face no patchwork of local price caps or cause requirements on top of state law.

With a poverty rate of 18.6% and a renter share of 36.5% across the county, the tenant pool here includes a meaningful share of cost-burdened households; the city-by-city grid above shows exactly where that pressure concentrates so landlords can price screening standards and reserves accordingly.