Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 40% against 30.9% citywide, putting Oak Lawn 9.0% over its own city. 69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. The 12 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 3 to 5.1, a 2.1-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

16% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side is economic stress, at 2.6/10. At $1,735 a month, rents sit 18% over what the rest of Dallas commands.

Filings are well documented here: 4,138 across 4 observed tracts. Filing activity peaked in 2012 at 16.6% of renter households.

Running cool is housing-court posture, at 3/10. The most recent observed rate, 5.2% in 2017, is well off that peak. Among the 36 mapped neighborhoods of Dallas, it ranks #26 by risk, the lower third.

For a like-for-like read, Arts District and Lake Highlands score within a fraction of it. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $90,073.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.1 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.