The Village Eviction Risk: Lower , Dallas

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $1,934 a month, rents run 31% over what the rest of Dallas commands. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Court records carry 617 eviction filings across 18 observed years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 10.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Dallas. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters. It tracks the Dallas County average of 3.8 closely. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $76,095.

61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.