Corpus Christi Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 48355003305 · Nueces, TX · pop 4,810
For landlords sizing up Corpus Christi, census tract 48355003305 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 5.5/10. That is riskier than about 55% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 45% of renter households, a severe level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,227 a month against an average household income of $43,015 a year, roughly 34% of income at the averages. About 70% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Corpus Christi and the region
Centroid at 27.7001, -97.3682 · click any tract to drill in
Why Corpus Christi scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Corpus Christi compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 123Total filings over 4 yrs
- 3.29%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.2%Peak (2007)
- 33Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Corpus Christi
What moves this score most is economic stress at 8.2/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Corpus Christi eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Nueces County average of 5.0 and above the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 90th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 123 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 3.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.2% of renter households in 2007.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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