Lubbock Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Average gross rent is $784, 34% below the Lubbock average. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

Against Lubbock County at 45.8%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Disability prevalence runs 45.8% against 31.5% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points above the Lubbock County average of 3.6. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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

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