February 17 2012 - STATE'S MORTGAGE DELINQUENCY RATE UP DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) – Texas’ mortgage delinquency rate in fourth quarter 2011 was about  a third of a percentage point higher than in the  previous quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported yesterday. During the last three months of 2011, more than 276,000 Texas homeowners (9.07 percent) had  missed a mortgage payment. Nationally, the rate  was 7.58 percent. According to the mortgage bankers, Texas now has the 14th-worst mortgage delinquency rate among the states.