The Ridge Eviction Risk: Lower , Lubbock

62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Lubbock County average of 45.8%. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. The voucher gap is 26.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Average gross rent is $1,503, 27% above the Lubbock average. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Against the Lubbock County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 11% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $118,948, annual rent is just 15%. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

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

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.