Southmost Eviction Risk: Moderate , Brownsville

Cost burden runs 27% here against 42.8% across Cameron County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 20 filings here across 3 tracked years. At $833 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Brownsville commands.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Cameron County average of 3.9 closely.

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