Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dallas

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $45,300 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Dallas County average of 3.8.

The filing record is not thin: 2,295 evictions over 18 years of observation. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.6% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2007 at 16.6% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Dallas. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 11.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.