Kern Place Eviction Risk: Lower , El Paso
Tract 48141001502 · El Paso, TX · pop 2,544 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
48141001502 is a census tract in the Kern Place area of El Paso, TX. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,544. 36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across El Paso and the region
Centroid at 31.7761, -106.4997 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kern Place scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kern Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 49
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 41%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 35%Grade A
- 16%Grade B
- 1%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.
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)
- 4Total filings over 1 yrs
- 1.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.2%Peak (2012)
- 4Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kern Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Kern Place
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.8/10. It sits 0.9 points below the El Paso County average of 3.9. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 4 filings here across 1 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.2% of renter households were served. Average gross rent is $981, 9% below the El Paso average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.
In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $88,889, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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