Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48439111104 · Tarrant, TX · pop 3,311
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 48439111104 in Forest Hill, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,311. Severe burden reaches 50%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,009
Renter share19.1%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate17.1%
Median income$52,239
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
99
th percentile
Very High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Forest Hill and the region
Centroid at 32.6709, -97.2750 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hill scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Forest Hill
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
17.1% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,643 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Forest Hill
8.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Forest Hill
6.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Forest Hill
7.9
How Forest Hill 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.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 49%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)
- 419Total filings over 17 yrs
- 16.19%Avg annual filing rate
- 21.0%Peak (2003)
- 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 30% over the past 17 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 124Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.98×Ratio to 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
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hill
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.9/10. Set annual rent against average income of $52,239 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.5% against 11.3% nationally.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.
It sits 1.6 points above the Tarrant County average of 3.8. Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally. Court records carry 419 eviction filings across 17 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2003, when 21.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 16.2% of renter households face a filing.
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 48439111104
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48439111104?
Census tract 48439111104 in Forest Hill scores 5.4/10 (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 48439111104?
Median gross rent is $1,643/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48439111104?
17.1% of residents in tract 48439111104 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,311.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48439111104?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 85th, minority 92th, housing 27th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48439111104?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 419 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 48439111104 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 16.19% of renter households, peaking at 21.0% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48439111104 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.98× 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.
Q7
How does tract 48439111104 compare to Forest Hill overall?
Tract 48439111104 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Forest Hill at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Forest Hill; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 48439111104 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Forest Hill
Top eight tracts in Forest Hill ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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