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Winnetka Heights Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dallas

Tract 48113005200 · Dallas, TX · pop 4,561 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

How risky is the Winnetka Heights Historic District area of Dallas for landlords? Census tract 48113005200 scores 4.9/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 34% of US census tracts.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 28% of renter households, a moderate level, and 6% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,764 a month while the average household earns $86,853 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. About 22% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 16% Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units1,515
Renter share22.4%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate15.1%
Median income$86,853

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 7 tracts In Winnetka Heights Historic District
Moderate
Within parent city
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#201 of 348 tracts In Dallas
Moderate
Within county
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#242 of 645 tracts In Dallas
Elevated
Within state
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#2,781 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Dallas and the region

Centroid at 32.7406, -96.8509 · click any tract to drill in

Why Winnetka Heights Historic District scores 4.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
15.1% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$1,764 rent vs county FMR
4.4
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 Winnetka Heights Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Winnetka Heights Historic District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.34.3This tracttract 005200Dallas: 2.72.7Dallasparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 52

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 485Total filings over 18 yrs
  • 5.60%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.1%Peak (2002)
  • 19Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 481130052002000: 33 filings (7.32/100 renter HHs)2001: 27 filings (5.99/100 renter HHs)2002: 41 filings (9.09/100 renter HHs)2003: 28 filings (6.21/100 renter HHs)2004: 28 filings (6.21/100 renter HHs)2005: 26 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2006: 26 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2007: 31 filings (5.21/100 renter HHs)2008: 32 filings (5.38/100 renter HHs)2009: 15 filings (2.52/100 renter HHs)2010: 22 filings (4.90/100 renter HHs)2011: 26 filings (5.69/100 renter HHs)2012: 30 filings (6.56/100 renter HHs)2013: 21 filings (4.60/100 renter HHs)2014: 32 filings (7.00/100 renter HHs)2015: 21 filings (4.60/100 renter HHs)2016: 27 filings (6.37/100 renter HHs)2017: 19 filings (4.48/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 42% over the past 18 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 105Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.85×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 1 filings (3.03× baseline)2020-02-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2020-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 4 filings (3.01× baseline)2020-09-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2020-10-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2020-11-01: 2 filings (0.75× baseline)2020-12-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2021-01-01: 2 filings (6.06× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2021-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-08-01: 5 filings (3.76× baseline)2021-09-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2021-10-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2021-11-01: 1 filings (0.37× baseline)2021-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-01-01: 1 filings (3.03× baseline)2022-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-03-01: 3 filings (3.00× baseline)2022-04-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2022-05-01: 3 filings (1.80× baseline)2022-06-01: 3 filings (1.29× baseline)2022-07-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-09-01: 3 filings (2.26× baseline)2022-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-11-01: 1 filings (0.37× baseline)2022-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-01-01: 3 filings (9.09× baseline)2023-02-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2023-03-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-04-01: 3 filings (2.26× baseline)2023-05-01: 1 filings (0.60× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2023-07-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-08-01: 2 filings (1.50× baseline)2023-09-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2023-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 1 filings (0.37× baseline)2023-12-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2024-01-01: 4 filings (12.12× baseline)2024-02-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2024-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-04-01: 4 filings (3.01× baseline)2024-05-01: 4 filings (2.40× baseline)2024-06-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2024-07-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-08-01: 2 filings (1.50× baseline)2024-09-01: 3 filings (2.26× baseline)2024-10-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2024-11-01: 1 filings (0.37× baseline)2024-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-01-01: 1 filings (3.03× baseline)2025-02-01: 4 filings (1.72× baseline)2025-03-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-05-01: 1 filings (0.60× baseline)2025-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-08-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2025-09-01: 2 filings (1.50× baseline)2025-10-01: 3 filings (1.29× baseline)2025-11-01: 1 filings (0.37× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Dallas, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Winnetka Heights Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Winnetka Heights Historic District

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 4.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Dallas eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Dallas County average of 5.2 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

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.

The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 52nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 48113005200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48113005200?

Census tract 48113005200 in the Winnetka Heights Historic District neighborhood scores 4.3/10 (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 48113005200?

Median gross rent is $1,764/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48113005200?

15.1% of residents in tract 48113005200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,561.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48113005200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 71th, household 46th, minority 82th, housing 16th.
Q5

Is tract 48113005200 considered part of Winnetka Heights Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48113005200 fall within Winnetka Heights Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48113005200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 485 eviction filings across 18 validated years in tract 48113005200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.60% of renter households, peaking at 9.1% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48113005200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.85× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Dallas eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48113005200 compare to Dallas overall?

Tract 48113005200 scores 4.3/10, higher than the parent city of Dallas at 2.7/10. 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.
Q9

Was tract 48113005200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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