Knob Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Antonio
Tract 48029130200 · Bexar, TX · pop 1,630 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
48029130200 is a census tract in the Knob Hill area of San Antonio, TX. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,630. 38% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
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Centroid at 29.4158, -98.4674 · click any tract to drill in
Why Knob Hill scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Knob Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 254Total filings over 9 yrs
- 10.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.8%Peak (2008)
- 37Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Knob Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Knob Hill
63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Bexar County average of 48.2%. Adults with no health insurance runs 33.5% against 11.3% nationally. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.1 points above the Bexar County average of 4.1. At $1,118 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of San Antonio commands.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 254 filings here across 9 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2008 at 13.8% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 10.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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