Big Spring Eviction Risk: Moderate

55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Howard County average of 30.9%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 35.4% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 46.5% against 31.5% nationally.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Howard County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Average gross rent is $873, 17% below the Big Spring average.

On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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