Government Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Antonio
Tract 48029111000 · Bexar, TX · pop 2,461 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
For landlords sizing up Government Hill in San Antonio, census tract 48029111000 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. It lands near the 59th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 42% of renter households, a severe level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,253 monthly, set against $56,792 in average yearly household income, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 81% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Antonio and the region
Centroid at 29.4403, -98.4709 · click any tract to drill in
Why Government Hill scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Government Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 84%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 82%Grade B
- 4%Grade C
- 10%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 219Total filings over 9 yrs
- 4.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2008)
- 34Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Government Hill
What moves this score most is economic stress at 8.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from San Antonio eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Bexar County average of 5.2 and above the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 97th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 219 eviction filings here over 9 tracked years, with about 4.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 7.3% of renter households in 2008.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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