Amarillo Eviction Risk: Moderate

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.0% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Against Potter County at 42.1%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $867 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Amarillo commands. It sits 0.9 points above the Potter County average of 3.7.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Amarillo. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 10/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $43,846.

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