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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Cat Mountain Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

Tract 48453030700 · Travis, TX · pop 4,028 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 48453030700 sits in the Cat Mountain area of Austin eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 4,028. 17% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Travis County average of 44.8%.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 6% Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units1,798
Renter share7.0%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$191,053

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Cat Mountain
Moderate
Within parent city
18 th percentile
Rank, 18th percentileLowHigh
#197 of 239 tracts In Austin
Very Low
Within county
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#251 of 290 tracts In Travis
Very Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Austin and the region

Centroid at 30.3495, -97.7806 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cat Mountain scores 3

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
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
10.0
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 Cat Mountain compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cat Mountain risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0307004.0Austinparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 3

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cat Mountain

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. At $3,501 a month, rents run 102% over what the rest of Austin commands. The voucher gap is 79.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Travis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 7% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 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 housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48453030700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48453030700?

Census tract 48453030700 in the Cat Mountain neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 48453030700?

Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 17% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48453030700?

4.9% of residents in tract 48453030700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,028.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48453030700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 54th, minority 23th, housing 2th.
Q5

Is tract 48453030700 considered part of Cat Mountain?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48453030700 fall within Cat Mountain (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How does tract 48453030700 compare to Austin overall?

Tract 48453030700 scores 3/10, 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.
Q7

Was tract 48453030700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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