Dallas Eviction Risk: Moderate

Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $36,587, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.9/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.4% against 11.3% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points above the Dallas County average of 3.8. Court records carry 1,079 eviction filings across 18 observed years.

Average gross rent is $1,282, 13% below the Dallas average. Filings peaked in 2007 at 27.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 13.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 24% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.