Northwest Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.4/10. Average gross rent is $2,266, 31% above the Austin average. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Travis County average of 4.0. The voucher gap is 16.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $177,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion. 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.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.