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Neighborhood · Ranked #59,654 of 84,120 nationally

Westpark Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

Tract 48453001911 · Travis, TX · pop 3,018 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 48453001911 sits in the Westpark area of Austin eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.4/10. It is home to 3,018 residents. 92% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Risk score
3.4
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 55% Owners 8%
Tract context
Occupied units1,860
Renter share92.4%
SVI overall0.17
Poverty rate3.2%
Median income$91,136

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Westpark
Moderate
Within parent city
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#164 of 239 tracts In Austin
Low
Within county
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#172 of 290 tracts In Travis
Moderate
Within state
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#3,765 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Austin and the region

Centroid at 30.2593, -97.7857 · click any tract to drill in

Why Westpark scores 3.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Austin
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
3.2% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,828 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Austin
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Austin
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Austin
4.5

How Westpark compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westpark risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.4This tracttract 0019114.0Austinparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 17

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 289Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 1.47%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.1%Peak (2002)
  • 10Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2012
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48453001911
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Westpark

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.2% against 31.5% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against Travis County at 44.8%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. The filing record is not thin: 289 evictions over 12 years of observation.

It sits 0.6 points below the Travis County average of 4.0. Filings peaked in 2002 at 2.1% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 1.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 48453001911

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48453001911?

Census tract 48453001911 in the Westpark neighborhood scores 3.4/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 48453001911?

Median gross rent is $1,828/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48453001911?

3.2% of residents in tract 48453001911 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,018.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48453001911?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 17th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 2th, minority 56th, housing 39th.
Q5

Is tract 48453001911 considered part of Westpark?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48453001911 fall within Westpark (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48453001911?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 289 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 48453001911 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.47% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 48453001911 compare to Austin overall?

Tract 48453001911 scores 3.4/10, lower than the parent city of Austin at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Austin eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 48453001911 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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