The Triangle Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

76% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 19.4% against 31.5% nationally.

Cost burden runs 51% here against 44.8% across Travis County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 218 filings here across 12 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2002, when 3.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Austin. 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.