Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Prospect Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Antonio
Tract 48029170102 · Bexar, TX · pop 2,891 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
48029170102 is a census tract in the Prospect Hill area of San Antonio, TX. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 42%. 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 38%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,125
Renter share50.2%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate37.4%
Median income$36,313
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
79
th percentile
High
Within county
79
th percentile
High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across San Antonio and the region
Centroid at 29.4325, -98.5195 · click any tract to drill in
Why Prospect 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
37.4% poverty · this tract
9.4
Supply constraint
$895 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Prospect Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%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
- 32%Grade C
- 68%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)
- 101Total filings over 9 yrs
- 1.75%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.9%Peak (2007)
- 14Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 75% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Prospect Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Prospect Hill
Against Bexar County at 48.2%, 75% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 46.1% against 11.3% nationally. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.4/10.
The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 50.4% against 31.5% nationally.
Average gross rent is $895, 32% below the San Antonio average. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Bexar County average of 4.1.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 101 filings here across 9 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 2.9% of renter households were served.
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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 48029170102
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48029170102?
Census tract 48029170102 in the Prospect 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 48029170102?
Median gross rent is $895/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 75% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48029170102?
37.4% of residents in tract 48029170102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,891.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48029170102?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 74th, minority 95th, housing 24th.
Q5
Is tract 48029170102 considered part of Prospect Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48029170102 fall within Prospect Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48029170102?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 101 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 48029170102 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.75% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 48029170102 compare to San Antonio overall?
Tract 48029170102 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 48029170102 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. 68% 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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