East Cesar Chavez Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin
Tract 48453001000 · Travis, TX · pop 3,291 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 3.7/10, tract 48453001000 in the East Cesar Chavez area of Austin, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. 34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
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Centroid at 30.2528, -97.7258 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Cesar Chavez scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Cesar Chavez compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 25%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%Housing & transportation
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
- 29%Grade B
- 57%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)
- 209Total filings over 12 yrs
- 2.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.8%Peak (2003)
- 9Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in East Cesar Chavez
What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 9.9/10. Average gross rent is $2,896, 67% above the Austin average. The voucher gap is 48.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Court records carry 209 eviction filings across 12 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2003, when 3.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 2.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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