Knob Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Antonio
Tract 48029130402 · Bexar, TX · pop 3,837 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
The Knob Hill neighborhood of San Antonio anchors census tract 48029130402, which lands at 5.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 70th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 66% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 42% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $872 a month against an average household income of $25,300 a year, roughly 41% of income at the averages. About 65% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
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Why Knob Hill scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Knob Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%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
- 4%Grade B
- 12%Grade C
- 15%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)
- 327Total filings over 9 yrs
- 8.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.2%Peak (2008)
- 51Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Knob Hill
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from San Antonio eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Bexar County average of 5.2 and above the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 100th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 327 eviction filings here over 9 tracked years, with about 8.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 12.2% of renter households in 2008.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 48029130402
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