North Lake Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dallas

Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 47.9% across Dallas County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.1/10. 88% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $36,697, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.8% against 11.3% nationally.

Against the Dallas County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Court records carry 2,959 eviction filings across 18 observed years. At $1,258 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Dallas commands.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 20.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.8% of renter households face a filing.

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