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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

South Dallas Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 48113020401 · Dallas, TX · pop 2,650 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

48113020401 is a census tract in the South Dallas area of Dallas, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. 93% 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.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45% Stable renters 48% Owners 7%
Tract context
Occupied units1,490
Renter share93.1%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate30.9%
Median income$70,932

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In South Dallas
Very Low
Within parent city
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 348 tracts In Dallas
Elevated
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#102 of 645 tracts In Dallas
High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Dallas and the region

Centroid at 32.7821, -96.7788 · click any tract to drill in

Why South Dallas scores 5.1

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
30.9% poverty · this tract
7.7
Supply constraint
$1,783 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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 South Dallas compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
South Dallas risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.15.1This tracttract 020401Dallas: 3.73.7Dallasparent cityCounty: 3.83.8Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 81

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 946Total filings 2020-21
  • 12.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 3.13×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 6 filings (1.28× baseline)2020-02-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2020-03-01: 3 filings (1.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 3 filings (0.50× baseline)2020-09-01: 3 filings (0.90× baseline)2020-10-01: 2 filings (0.43× baseline)2020-11-01: 2 filings (0.54× baseline)2020-12-01: 5 filings (1.87× baseline)2021-01-01: 2 filings (0.43× baseline)2021-02-01: 4 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 3 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 6 filings (2.58× baseline)2021-05-01: 4 filings (0.63× baseline)2021-06-01: 4 filings (0.71× baseline)2021-07-01: 5 filings (1.25× baseline)2021-08-01: 5 filings (0.83× baseline)2021-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-10-01: 8 filings (1.71× baseline)2021-11-01: 9 filings (2.45× baseline)2021-12-01: 13 filings (4.87× baseline)2022-01-01: 16 filings (3.43× baseline)2022-02-01: 15 filings (3.75× baseline)2022-03-01: 7 filings (2.33× baseline)2022-04-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2022-05-01: 11 filings (1.74× baseline)2022-06-01: 2 filings (0.35× baseline)2022-07-01: 8 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 5 filings (0.83× baseline)2022-09-01: 11 filings (3.30× baseline)2022-10-01: 5 filings (1.07× baseline)2022-11-01: 15 filings (4.09× baseline)2022-12-01: 14 filings (5.24× baseline)2023-01-01: 14 filings (3.00× baseline)2023-02-01: 12 filings (3.00× baseline)2023-03-01: 14 filings (4.67× baseline)2023-04-01: 17 filings (7.30× baseline)2023-05-01: 9 filings (1.42× baseline)2023-06-01: 15 filings (2.65× baseline)2023-07-01: 18 filings (4.50× baseline)2023-08-01: 21 filings (3.50× baseline)2023-09-01: 12 filings (3.60× baseline)2023-10-01: 14 filings (3.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 19 filings (5.18× baseline)2023-12-01: 12 filings (4.49× baseline)2024-01-01: 17 filings (3.64× baseline)2024-02-01: 27 filings (6.75× baseline)2024-03-01: 12 filings (4.00× baseline)2024-04-01: 15 filings (6.44× baseline)2024-05-01: 19 filings (3.00× baseline)2024-06-01: 20 filings (3.53× baseline)2024-07-01: 11 filings (2.75× baseline)2024-08-01: 22 filings (3.67× baseline)2024-09-01: 23 filings (6.91× baseline)2024-10-01: 25 filings (5.35× baseline)2024-11-01: 31 filings (8.45× baseline)2024-12-01: 24 filings (8.99× baseline)2025-01-01: 29 filings (6.21× baseline)2025-02-01: 26 filings (6.50× baseline)2025-03-01: 14 filings (4.67× baseline)2025-04-01: 15 filings (6.44× baseline)2025-05-01: 23 filings (3.63× baseline)2025-06-01: 18 filings (3.17× baseline)2025-07-01: 20 filings (5.00× baseline)2025-08-01: 25 filings (4.17× baseline)2025-09-01: 22 filings (6.61× baseline)2025-10-01: 16 filings (3.43× baseline)2025-11-01: 16 filings (4.36× baseline)2025-12-01: 20 filings (7.49× baseline)2026-01-01: 6 filings (60.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 28 filings (280.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 13 filings (130.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 29 filings (290.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within South Dallas. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in South Dallas

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Against the Dallas County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

At $1,783 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Dallas commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 49% of renters.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 48113020401

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48113020401?

Census tract 48113020401 in the South Dallas neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 48113020401?

Median gross rent is $1,783/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48113020401?

30.9% of residents in tract 48113020401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,650.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48113020401?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 13th, minority 71th, housing 95th.
Q5

Is tract 48113020401 considered part of South Dallas?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48113020401 fall within South Dallas (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48113020401 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 3.13× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Dallas eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48113020401 compare to Dallas overall?

Tract 48113020401 scores 5.1/10, higher 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 48113020401 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. 58% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Dallas

Top eight tracts in Dallas ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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