Rainey Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin
Tract 48453001103 · Travis, TX · pop 3,522 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
The Moderate-tier score of $1/10 for census tract 48453001103 reflects conditions in the Rainey Street Historic District area of Austin, Texas. That is riskier than roughly 37% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 27% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,835 monthly, set against $161,735 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 51% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
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Why Rainey Street Historic District scores 2.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Rainey Street Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 11%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%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
- 1%Grade B
- 63%Grade C
- 19%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.
What drives eviction risk in Rainey Street Historic District
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 9.5/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Austin eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Travis County average of 5.2 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 19% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 9th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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