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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Knob Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Antonio

Tract 48029130402 · Bexar, TX · pop 3,837 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Tract 48029130402 sits in the Knob Hill area of San Antonio eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. Population here is 3,837. Severe burden reaches 42%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43% Stable renters 23% Owners 34%
Tract context
Occupied units1,234
Renter share65.5%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate53.4%
Median income$25,300

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#3 of 4 tracts In Knob Hill
Low
Within parent city
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#21 of 321 tracts In San Antonio
Very High
Within county
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#28 of 375 tracts In Bexar
Very High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#375 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across San Antonio and the region

Centroid at 29.4055, -98.4406 · click any tract to drill in

Why Knob Hill scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from San Antonio
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
53.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$872 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from San Antonio
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from San Antonio
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from San Antonio
3.0

How Knob Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Knob Hill risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 1304023.8San Antonioparent city4.1Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 100

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 327Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 8.87%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.2%Peak (2008)
  • 51Filings in 2008 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2008
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48029130402
Filings climbed 183% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Knob Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Knob Hill

66% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Bexar County average of 48.2%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 39.6% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 53%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 52.4% against 31.5% nationally. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $25,300, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. At $872 a month, rents run 34% under what the rest of San Antonio commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

65% 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. Against the Bexar County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Court records carry 327 eviction filings across 9 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2008, when 12.2% of renter households were served.

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 48029130402

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48029130402?

Census tract 48029130402 in the Knob Hill neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 48029130402?

Median gross rent is $872/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 66% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48029130402?

53.4% of residents in tract 48029130402 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,837.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48029130402?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 99th, minority 92th, housing 94th.
Q5

Is tract 48029130402 considered part of Knob Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48029130402 fall within Knob Hill (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48029130402?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 327 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 48029130402 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.87% of renter households, peaking at 12.2% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 48029130402 compare to San Antonio overall?

Tract 48029130402 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of San Antonio at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from San Antonio eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 48029130402 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 15% 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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