Columbia Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate
9 census tracts · pop 34,568 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 5/10 · range 3.8–5.2
Columbia Heights is a 9-tract neighborhood of San Antonio, TX, population 34,568. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 5/10, in the Moderate tier. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.
Severe burden reaches 23%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 3.8 to 5.2, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk.
The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Against a San Antonio baseline of 32.0%, 38% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line.
Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 2.6/10. Filings are well documented here: 1,514 across 8 observed tracts.
Average gross rent is $1,145, 14% below the San Antonio average of $1,324. The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 14.9% of renter households.
On the softer side is housing-court posture, at 3/10. The most recent observed rate, 4.4% in 2008, is well off that peak. Among the 88 mapped neighborhoods of San Antonio, it ranks #15 by risk, the upper third.
For a like-for-like read, River Road and South Texas Medical Center score within a fraction of it. Social vulnerability runs high at 9/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $52,315.
For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 5 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.
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Risk heat across Columbia Heights and the region
Click any tract to drill in · 9 tracts span score 3.8–5.2
Why Columbia Heights scores 5
9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendlyColumbia Heights vs. parent city, state, U.S.
Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).
How uniformly does eviction risk play out in Columbia Heights?
Left: distribution of constituent tract scores. Right: every tract as a heat square. Click any square to drill in.
9 tracts in Columbia Heights
Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.
| Tract↕ | Score↕ | Pop↕ | % over 30% on rent↕ | Average rent↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48029151100 | 5.2 | 6,651 | 42% | $1,273 |
| 48029150400 | 5.2 | 4,212 | 38% | $1,121 |
| 48029160901 | 5.2 | 2,777 | 50% | $1,051 |
| 48029160300 | 5 | 5,795 | 26% | $1,181 |
| 48029151000 | 5 | 3,391 | 62% | $1,191 |
| 48029150600 | 4.9 | 4,388 | 50% | $999 |
| 48029150501 | 4.6 | 4,042 | 24% | $1,093 |
| 48029150502 | 4.3 | 3,312 | 15% | $1,141 |
| 48029980002 | 3.8 | , | , | , |
CDC SVI percentile: 89
Pop-weighted across 9 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.
Court-record eviction history in Columbia Heights
Aggregated across 8 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,514Total filings (sum)
- 4.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.9%Peak year (2007)
- 4.34%Latest filed (2008)
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