South Overton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lubbock

Against Lubbock County at 45.8%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $32,462, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 21%, 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. At $1,046 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Lubbock commands.

That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

56% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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