Llano County, Texas Eviction Risk: Low

Llano County carries an average eviction-risk score of 2.2/10, placing it in the Low tier and landing at rank 63 of 254 Texas eviction laws counties, meaning 62 counties in the state are riskier and 191 are more landlord-friendly. That positions Llano County in the higher-risk third of Texas overall, a nuance investors should absorb before assuming this rural Hill Country market is uniformly hospitable. The county's 25.5% renter share and an average rent burden of 33.4% of income suggest that a meaningful portion of tenants are financially stretched, which contributes to delinquency pressure even where raw eviction volumes stay low.

Across all 6 tracked cities in the county, scores range from 1.2/10 to 2.4/10, a gap that matters operationally. With a total county population of about 18,552 and an average market rent of $1,115, Llano County is a smaller, owner-occupied-skewed market, but the internal spread of 1.2 points means two landlords operating different sub-markets inside the same county can face meaningfully different tenant-risk profiles.

The cities inside Llano County

The highest-risk locations in the county are Kingsland and Horseshoe Bay, each scoring 2.4/10. Kingsland, the most populous city at 7,330 residents, and Horseshoe Bay, at 4,854 residents, are the two largest communities in the county and the ones where eviction pressure is most concentrated. Landlords with rental inventory in either of these lake-area markets should price screening standards and reserve funds accordingly. The city of Llano, with 3,494 residents and a score of 2.1/10, sits close to the county average and presents a more moderate operating environment.

On the lower end, Buchanan Dam scores 2/10, while Sunrise Beach Village drops to 1.3/10 and Buchanan Lake Village reaches the county floor at 1.2/10. That spread from 1.2 to 2.4 underscores how hyper-local eviction risk can be within a single small county. An investor comparing Kingsland to Buchanan Lake Village is comparing markets that, by this scoring model, sit nearly as far apart as many landlord-friendly and landlord-hostile counties do statewide.

State-level laws that apply here

Texas state law, specifically Tex. Prop. Code § 91 and § 92 (Residential Tenancies), sets the procedural baseline for every landlord in Llano County. The eviction notice period is 3 days for non-payment of rent, lease violations, and holdover tenants under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005. Unauthorized occupants or squatters can be addressed with a 0-day notice under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.011 as added by SB-38. The Texas eviction process from notice to judgment runs roughly 21 to 30 days when uncontested, and 45 to 90 days when a tenant contests. Out-of-pocket costs include court filing fees of $54 to $125, sheriff lockout fees of $50 to $175, and attorney fees ranging from $500 to $3,500 depending on complexity. Reviewing Texas eviction costs before acquiring property here is worth the time, because even a single contested case at the high end can erase months of net rent.

Texas requires no just cause to terminate a lease at the end of its term, and state law preempts local rent control under TX Local Gov Code § 214.902, so no city within Llano County can impose a rent cap. Source of income is not a protected class under Texas state law. Tenants do retain retaliation protections under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.331 and habitability rights under § 92.052, both of which landlords should understand before issuing notices. The Texas security deposit limits and Texas tenant protections frameworks round out the state-law picture every landlord operating in the county needs to know.

With a poverty rate of 12.6% and only 25.5% of households renting, Llano County is a low-density landlord market where individual tenant selection carries outsized weight; the city-by-city scores in the grid above show where within the county that weight is felt most.