Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Fort Worth Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48439104701 · Tarrant, TX · pop 4,857
48439104701 is a census tract in Fort Worth, TX. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,857 residents. 49% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 63%
Tract context
Occupied units1,328
Renter share37.0%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate14.7%
Median income$54,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
75
th percentile
Elevated
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Worth and the region
Centroid at 32.6917, -97.3360 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fort Worth scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fort Worth
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
14.7% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,031 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Worth
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Worth
2.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Worth
2.5
How Fort Worth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 79%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%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
- 100%Grade B
- 0%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 350Total filings over 17 yrs
- 3.61%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.7%Peak (2006)
- 19Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 111% over the past 17 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 96Total filings 2020-21
- 1.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.68×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Fort Worth, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fort Worth
Adults with no health insurance runs 41.9% against 11.3% nationally. Cost burden runs 65% here against 50.2% across Tarrant County. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Average gross rent is $1,031, 32% below the Fort Worth average.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Court records carry 350 eviction filings across 17 observed years.
It sits 0.8 points above the Tarrant County average of 3.8. Filings peaked in 2006 at 4.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Fort Worth. 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 3.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 48439104701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48439104701?
Census tract 48439104701 in Fort Worth scores 4.6/10 (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 48439104701?
Median gross rent is $1,031/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48439104701?
14.7% of residents in tract 48439104701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,857.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48439104701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 79th, minority 93th, housing 27th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48439104701?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 350 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 48439104701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.61% of renter households, peaking at 4.7% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48439104701 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.68× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Fort Worth eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 48439104701 compare to Fort Worth overall?
Tract 48439104701 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Fort Worth at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Worth eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 48439104701 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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