Oak Cliff Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dallas

34% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Dallas County average of 47.9%. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 513 evictions over 18 years of observation.

At $1,634 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Dallas commands. Filings peaked in 2002 at 11.5% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 5.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.