Hempstead Eviction Risk: Lower

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.9% against 11.3% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 6.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Waller County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,282, close to the Hempstead average.

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.