Within neighborhood
82
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally
Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Lower , Dallas
Tract 48113000408 · Dallas, TX · pop 2,301 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 48113000408 sits in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.5/10. Population here is 2,301. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 36%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,485
Renter share57.4%
SVI overall0.23
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$71,723
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
39
th percentile
Low
Within county
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
48
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Dallas and the region
Centroid at 32.8182, -96.8251 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oak Lawn scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Dallas
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,478 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dallas
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dallas
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dallas
3.0
How Oak Lawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 57%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 77%Grade B
- 23%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 377Total filings 2020-21
- 4.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.42×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Dallas, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Oak Lawn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Oak Lawn
Against Dallas County at 47.9%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 31% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Dallas County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $1,478, close to the Dallas average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $71,723.
57% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 48113000408
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48113000408?
Census tract 48113000408 in the Oak Lawn neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (Lower 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 48113000408?
Median gross rent is $1,478/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48113000408?
10.3% of residents in tract 48113000408 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,301.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48113000408?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 23th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 57th, household 0th, minority 67th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 48113000408 considered part of Oak Lawn?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48113000408 fall within Oak Lawn (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48113000408 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.42× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Dallas eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 48113000408 compare to Dallas overall?
Tract 48113000408 scores 3.5/10, right in line with the parent city of Dallas at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dallas eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 48113000408 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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