South Overton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lubbock

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Average gross rent is $791, 33% below the Lubbock average.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $28,472, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Lubbock County average of 3.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

45% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.