Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dallas

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Cost burden runs 60% here against 47.9% across Dallas County. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $58,232, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Against the Dallas County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Adults with no health insurance runs 22.3% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 864 evictions over 18 years of observation. At $1,649 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Dallas commands.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 7.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Dallas. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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.