Columbia Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Antonio
Tract 48029150501 · Bexar, TX · pop 4,042 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 48029150501 covers part of the Columbia Heights area of San Antonio, TX, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against Bexar County at 48.2%, 24% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Antonio and the region
Centroid at 29.3791, -98.5256 · click any tract to drill in
Why Columbia Heights scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Columbia Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 13%Grade B
- 82%Grade C
- 5%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)
- 169Total filings over 9 yrs
- 5.95%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.2%Peak (2000)
- 17Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Columbia Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Columbia Heights
Adults with no health insurance runs 37.7% against 11.3% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.
Average gross rent is $1,093, 17% below the San Antonio average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 169 filings here across 9 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2000 at 8.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for San Antonio. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 6.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
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.
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