{"id":180487,"date":"2026-02-26T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:36:13","slug":"4-texas-cities-rank-among-most-financially-distressed-in-u-s-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180487\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Texas cities rank among most financially distressed in U.S.: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WalletHub analyzed the 100 largest U.S. cities using nine key metrics, including average credit score, the year-over-year change in bankruptcy filings (September 2025 vs. September 2024) and the share of residents with accounts in distress.<\/p>\n<p>Four Texas cities landed in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/cities-with-the-most-people-in-financial-distress\/133346\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WalletHub <\/a>study, four Texas cities ranked in the top 10 of most financially distress metros in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other Texas cities included Fort Worth at No. 12 and El Paso and No. 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub evaluated cities across six primary categories:<\/p>\n<p>An account is considered in distress if it is in forbearance or has deferred payments.<\/p>\n<p>Each city received a weighted overall score based on those metrics and was ranked accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>A map below shows how Texas cities compare nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WalletHub analyzed the 100 largest U.S. cities using nine key metrics, including average credit score, the year-over-year change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-180487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}