Govalle Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin
Tract 48453000801 · Travis, TX · pop 2,000 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 48453000801 covers part of the Govalle area of Austin, TX, and scores 4.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,000 residents. The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Austin and the region
Centroid at 30.2669, -97.7015 · click any tract to drill in
Why Govalle scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Govalle compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 38%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%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.
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)
- 84Total filings over 12 yrs
- 3.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2012)
- 12Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Govalle. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Govalle
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 84 evictions over 12 years of observation.
49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Travis County average of 44.8%. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.8% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 4.3% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 4.0% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Travis County average of 4.0 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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