Vista Verde Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harlingen

The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.4/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 44.9% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against Cameron County at 42.8%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $777 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Harlingen commands.

Court records carry 17 eviction filings across 3 observed years. It sits 0.6 points above the Cameron County average of 3.9.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 4.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 51% 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.