Fort Worth Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.

The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence runs 44.4% against 31.5% nationally. At $1,179 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Fort Worth commands. It sits 1.0 points above the Tarrant County average of 3.8.

45% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Tarrant County average of 50.2%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 698 filings here across 17 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2008 at 10.3% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Fort Worth. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 5.4% of renter households face a filing.

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.