Castle Forest Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Marcos

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. It sits 2.6 points above the Hays County average of 4.7. Cost burden runs 63% here against 50.2% across Hays County.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10. At $1,166 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of San Marcos commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.6/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $48,214.

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