Dallas Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 44.5% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $927, 37% below the Dallas average.

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $28,040, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.6% against 31.5% nationally.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. 73% 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. Against the Dallas County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

The filing record is not thin: 3,030 evictions over 18 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2005 at 46.5% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

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.