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Wedgwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Worth

Tract 48439105701 · Tarrant, TX · pop 4,423 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

With a score of 3.6/10, tract 48439105701 in the Wedgwood area of Fort Worth, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,423 residents. 32% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Tarrant County average of 50.2%.

Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 18% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,432
Renter share26.3%
SVI overall0.53
Poverty rate9.6%
Median income$74,438

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 7 tracts In Wedgwood
Low
Within parent city
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#107 of 203 tracts In Fort Worth
Moderate
Within county
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#214 of 449 tracts In Tarrant
Moderate
Within state
51 th percentile
Rank, 51st percentileLowHigh
#3,403 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Fort Worth and the region

Centroid at 32.6635, -97.3612 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wedgwood scores 3.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
9.6% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,696 rent vs county FMR
4.9
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 Wedgwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wedgwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.6This tracttract 1057013.4Fort Worthparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 53

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

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)

  • 695Total filings over 17 yrs
  • 13.11%Avg annual filing rate
  • 17.3%Peak (2015)
  • 30Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48439105701
Filings dropped 21% over the past 17 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 247Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.74×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Wedgwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Wedgwood

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 20.6% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 695 evictions over 17 years of observation. At $1,696 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Fort Worth commands.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 17.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 13.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 33% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10.

It tracks the Tarrant County average of 3.8 closely. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $74,438.

26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 48439105701

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48439105701?

Census tract 48439105701 in the Wedgwood neighborhood scores 3.6/10 (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 48439105701?

Median gross rent is $1,696/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48439105701?

9.6% of residents in tract 48439105701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,423.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48439105701?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 53th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 37th, minority 71th, housing 32th.
Q5

Is tract 48439105701 considered part of Wedgwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48439105701 fall within Wedgwood (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48439105701?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 695 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 48439105701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.11% of renter households, peaking at 17.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48439105701 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Fort Worth eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48439105701 compare to Fort Worth overall?

Tract 48439105701 scores 3.6/10, right in line with 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Fort Worth

Top eight tracts in Fort Worth ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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