Columbia Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Antonio
Tract 48029160901 · Bexar, TX · pop 2,777 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Here is how census tract 48029160901, in the Columbia Heights area of San Antonio eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 5.8/10 eviction-risk score (Moderate tier) across a population of 2,777. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 50% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,051 a month against an average household income of $39,355 a year, roughly 32% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
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Centroid at 29.3676, -98.5461 · click any tract to drill in
Why Columbia Heights scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Columbia Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%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
- 0%Grade B
- 91%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 382Total filings over 9 yrs
- 9.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.9%Peak (2000)
- 23Filings 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
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.7/10. 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 382 eviction filings here over 9 tracked years, with about 9.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 14.9% of renter households in 2000.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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