West Congress Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Travis County average of 4.0. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against Travis County at 44.8%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $1,461 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Austin commands.

The filing record is not thin: 482 evictions over 12 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2011, when 7.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 5.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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