Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally
Las Playas Eviction Risk: Moderate , El Paso
Tract 48141002000 · El Paso, TX · pop 2,075 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
48141002000 is a census tract in the Las Playas area of El Paso, TX. It scores 4.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,075 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45%
Stable renters 43%
Owners 12%
Tract context
Occupied units801
Renter share87.3%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate57.7%
Median income$12,798
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
93
th percentile
Very High
Within county
92
th percentile
Very High
Within state
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across El Paso and the region
Centroid at 31.7577, -106.4714 · click any tract to drill in
Why Las Playas scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from El Paso
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
57.7% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$438 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from El Paso
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from El Paso
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from El Paso
3.5
How Las Playas compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 32%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.
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 4Total filings over 1 yrs
- 0.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.6%Peak (2012)
- 4Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Las Playas
Average gross rent is $438, 59% below the El Paso average. Adults with no health insurance runs 54.4% against 11.3% nationally. Disability prevalence runs 61.3% against 31.5% nationally.
The poverty rate is 58%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $12,798, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Cost burden runs 51% here against 45.7% across El Paso County. Against the El Paso County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
The filing record is not thin: 4 evictions over 1 years of observation.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 48141002000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48141002000?
Census tract 48141002000 in the Las Playas neighborhood scores 4.9/10 (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 48141002000?
Median gross rent is $438/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48141002000?
57.7% of residents in tract 48141002000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,075.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48141002000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 100th, minority 98th, housing 63th.
Q5
Is tract 48141002000 considered part of Las Playas?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48141002000 fall within Las Playas (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48141002000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 4 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 48141002000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.57% of renter households, peaking at 0.6% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 48141002000 compare to El Paso overall?
Tract 48141002000 scores 4.9/10, higher than the parent city of El Paso at 3.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from El Paso eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 48141002000 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. 32% 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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