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Neighborhood · Ranked #56,660 of 84,120 nationally

Ideal Place Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

Tract 48453000304 · Travis, TX · pop 3,054 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 48453000304 covers the Ideal Place neighborhood of Austin in Texas. Home to 3,054 residents, it scores $1/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 37% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 39% of renter households, a high level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,688 monthly, set against $97,031 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 72% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 44% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,580
Renter share71.8%
SVI overall0.19
Poverty rate5.7%
Median income$97,031

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Ideal Place
Very Low
Within parent city
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#157 of 239 tracts In Austin
Low
Within county
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#157 of 290 tracts In Travis
Moderate
Within state
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#4,582 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Austin and the region

Centroid at 30.3094, -97.7169 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ideal Place scores 3.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Austin
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
5.7% poverty · this tract
1.4
Supply constraint
$1,688 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Austin
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Austin
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Austin
4.5

How Ideal Place compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ideal Place risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.13.1This tracttract 000304Austin: 2.92.9Austinparent cityCounty: 3.33.3Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 19

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

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.

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)

  • 381Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 2.65%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.1%Peak (2007)
  • 30Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2012
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 484530003042001: 35 filings (2.64/100 renter HHs)2002: 11 filings (0.83/100 renter HHs)2003: 30 filings (2.26/100 renter HHs)2004: 27 filings (2.04/100 renter HHs)2005: 29 filings (2.35/100 renter HHs)2006: 36 filings (2.91/100 renter HHs)2007: 51 filings (4.12/100 renter HHs)2008: 27 filings (2.18/100 renter HHs)2009: 28 filings (2.26/100 renter HHs)2010: 37 filings (3.29/100 renter HHs)2011: 40 filings (3.98/100 renter HHs)2012: 30 filings (2.98/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Ideal Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Ideal Place

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Austin eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Travis County average of 5.2 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 19th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 48453000304

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48453000304?

Census tract 48453000304 in the Ideal Place neighborhood scores 3.1/10 (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 48453000304?

Median gross rent is $1,688/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48453000304?

5.7% of residents in tract 48453000304 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,054.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48453000304?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 19th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 1th, minority 45th, housing 68th.
Q5

Is tract 48453000304 considered part of Ideal Place?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48453000304 fall within Ideal Place (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48453000304?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 381 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 48453000304 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.65% of renter households, peaking at 4.1% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 48453000304 compare to Austin overall?

Tract 48453000304 scores 3.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Austin at 2.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Austin eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 48453000304 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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