Harlingen Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is economic stress at 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10.

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Cameron County average of 42.8%. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Cameron County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. The filing record is not thin: 14 evictions over 3 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2016 at 2.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.