La Marque Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.3/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Galveston County average of 4.0. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Average gross rent is $1,228, 15% below the La Marque average. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.2% against 11.3% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $55,909.

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