Brownsville Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 48061013401 · Cameron, TX · pop 2,103
Brownsville is where census tract 48061013401 sits, home to 2,103 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is $1/10. That is riskier than roughly 37% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 53% of renter households, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $865 a month while the average household earns $19,909 a year, roughly 52% of income at the averages. Renters make up 63% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brownsville and the region
Centroid at 25.9167, -97.4824 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brownsville scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brownsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 22Total filings over 3 yrs
- 1.90%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.2%Peak (2016)
- 8Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Brownsville
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Brownsville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Cameron County average of 4.5 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 22 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 1.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 2.2% of renter households in 2016.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 96th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Brownsville
Top eight tracts in Brownsville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.