West Ranch Eviction Risk: Lower , Friendswood

76% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Galveston County average of 46.2%. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

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 3% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $191,612, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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