Galveston Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Cost burden runs 56% here against 46.2% across Galveston County.

It sits 1.8 points above the Galveston County average of 4.0. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Average gross rent is $941, 28% below the Galveston average. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.2% against 11.3% nationally.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Galveston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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