Alton Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 47.7% against 31.5% nationally. At $794 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Alton commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Against the Hidalgo County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

47% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Hidalgo County average of 42.3%. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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