East Guadalupe Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Marcos

Against Hays County at 50.2%, about three-quarters of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Against the Hays County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $40,962, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.8/10.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.