Galveston Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $46,678 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.8 points above the Galveston County average of 4.0. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Galveston County average of 46.2%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.