Old West Austin Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

At $2,167 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Austin commands. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Disability prevalence runs 17.7% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Travis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 26 filings here across 11 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 0.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.