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Eastwoods Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

Tract 48453000401 · Travis, TX · pop 4,516 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 48453000401 sits in the Eastwoods area of Austin eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. It is home to 4,516 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42% Stable renters 32% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units2,220
Renter share73.6%
SVI overall0.39
Poverty rate19.8%
Median income$81,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Eastwoods
Moderate
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#54 of 239 tracts In Austin
High
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#54 of 290 tracts In Travis
High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#330 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Austin and the region

Centroid at 30.2882, -97.7251 · click any tract to drill in

Why Eastwoods scores 5.3

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
19.8% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,864 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Eastwoods compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Eastwoods risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.3This tracttract 0004014.0Austinparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 39

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)

  • 79Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 0.63%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.1%Peak (2003)
  • 3Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2012
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48453000401
Filings dropped 40% over the past 12 months.
Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Eastwoods

57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Travis County average of 44.8%. The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Travis County average of 4.0.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The filing record is not thin: 79 evictions over 12 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2003, when 1.1% 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48453000401

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48453000401?

Census tract 48453000401 in the Eastwoods neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 48453000401?

Median gross rent is $1,864/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48453000401?

19.8% of residents in tract 48453000401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,516.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48453000401?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 39th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 1th, minority 59th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 48453000401 considered part of Eastwoods?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48453000401 fall within Eastwoods (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48453000401?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 79 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 48453000401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.63% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 48453000401 compare to Austin overall?

Tract 48453000401 scores 5.3/10, higher than the parent city of Austin at 4/10. 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 48453000401 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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