Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Lower , Dallas
Tract 48113000607 · Dallas, TX · pop 1,877 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 48113000607 covers part of the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,877 residents. Cost burden runs about a quarter here against 47.9% across Dallas County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Dallas and the region
Centroid at 32.8205, -96.8066 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oak Lawn scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Oak Lawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 4
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 14%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 2%Grade A
- 98%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 85Total filings 2020-21
- 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Dallas, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Oak Lawn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Oak Lawn
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.0% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Dallas County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. At $1,619 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Dallas commands.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $115,972, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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