Friendswood Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. At $1,247 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Friendswood commands.

It sits 1.0 points below the Galveston County average of 4.0. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $121,750, annual rent is just 12%.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.