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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Oak Lawn Eviction Risk: Lower , Dallas

Tract 48113000608 · Dallas, TX · pop 2,427 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Census tract 48113000608 covers part of the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 20% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,668
Renter share39.6%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate10.7%
Median income$119,044

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 12 tracts In Oak Lawn
Moderate
Within parent city
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#249 of 348 tracts In Dallas
Low
Within county
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#508 of 645 tracts In Dallas
Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Dallas and the region

Centroid at 32.8177, -96.8133 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oak Lawn scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Dallas
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
10.7% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,521 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dallas
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dallas
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dallas
3.0

How Oak Lawn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oak Lawn risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0006083.7Dallasparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 7

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 153Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.82×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Dallas, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oak Lawn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Oak Lawn

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.7% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 0.8 points below the Dallas County average of 3.8.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $119,044, annual rent is just 15%. 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.

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 48113000608

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48113000608?

Census tract 48113000608 in the Oak Lawn neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 48113000608?

Median gross rent is $1,521/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48113000608?

10.7% of residents in tract 48113000608 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,427.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48113000608?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 0th, minority 56th, housing 9th.
Q5

Is tract 48113000608 considered part of Oak Lawn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48113000608 fall within Oak Lawn (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48113000608 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.82× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Dallas eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48113000608 compare to Dallas overall?

Tract 48113000608 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Dallas at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dallas eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 48113000608 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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