Dawson Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin
Tract 48453001308 · Travis, TX · pop 3,191 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
48453001308 is a census tract in the Dawson area of Austin, TX. It scores 3/10 for landlords. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Austin and the region
Centroid at 30.2327, -97.7618 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dawson scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Dawson compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%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
- 6%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)
- 592Total filings over 12 yrs
- 5.85%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.6%Peak (2003)
- 16Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Dawson
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Travis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
Court records carry 592 eviction filings across 12 observed years. The worst year on record was 2003, when 10.6% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10.
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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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