Rainey Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

Average gross rent is $2,835, 64% above the Austin average. The voucher gap is 45.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9.5/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.3% against 31.5% nationally.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Travis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $161,735.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.