San Marcos Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against the Hays County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.5% against 11.3% nationally. Against Hays County at 50.2%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10.

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.

Average gross rent is $1,338, close to the San Marcos average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $51,970. 63% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.