Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Knob Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Antonio
Tract 48029130500 · Bexar, TX · pop 3,717 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 48029130500 in the Knob Hill area of San Antonio, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,717. Severe burden reaches 55%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,337
Renter share57.3%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate35.6%
Median income$28,100
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
84
th percentile
High
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across San Antonio and the region
Centroid at 29.4192, -98.4522 · click any tract to drill in
Why Knob Hill scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from San Antonio
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
35.6% poverty · this tract
8.9
Supply constraint
$950 rent vs county FMR
1.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from San Antonio
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from San Antonio
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from San Antonio
3.0
How Knob Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 92%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 99%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 486Total filings over 9 yrs
- 9.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.5%Peak (2008)
- 98Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 128% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Knob Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Knob Hill
Cost burden runs 73% here against 48.2% across Bexar County. Adults with no health insurance runs 33.6% against 11.3% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $28,100, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running hot, economic stress reads 8.9/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.3/10.
Average gross rent is $950, 28% below the San Antonio average. Disability prevalence runs 44.2% against 31.5% nationally.
Against the Bexar County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 486 evictions over 9 years of observation.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 48029130500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48029130500?
Census tract 48029130500 in the Knob Hill neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 48029130500?
Median gross rent is $950/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 73% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48029130500?
35.6% of residents in tract 48029130500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,717.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48029130500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 92th, minority 97th, housing 86th.
Q5
Is tract 48029130500 considered part of Knob Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48029130500 fall within Knob Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48029130500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 486 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 48029130500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.05% of renter households, peaking at 14.5% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 48029130500 compare to San Antonio overall?
Tract 48029130500 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of San Antonio at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from San Antonio eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 48029130500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 99% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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