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Census Tract · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally

El Paso Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 48141002800 · El Paso, TX · pop 4,293

Census tract 48141002800 covers part of El Paso, TX, and scores 4.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41% Stable renters 29% Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,529
Renter share69.2%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate64.0%
Median income$16,388

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#34 of 149 tracts In El Paso
High
Within county
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 188 tracts In El Paso
Very High
Within state
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#1,124 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
High
National
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#34,278 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across El Paso and the region

Centroid at 31.7709, -106.4604 · click any tract to drill in

Why El Paso scores 4.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
64.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$659 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 El Paso compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
El Paso risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.9This tracttract 0028003.5El Pasoparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 100

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 20Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 1.65%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.7%Peak (2012)
  • 20Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in El Paso

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Disability prevalence runs 57.1% against 31.5% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 52.6% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 64%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 48% of average household income of $16,388, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Average gross rent is $659, 39% below the El Paso average. Against El Paso County at 45.7%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.0 points above the El Paso County average of 3.9.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 48141002800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48141002800?

Census tract 48141002800 in El Paso 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 48141002800?

Median gross rent is $659/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48141002800?

64.0% of residents in tract 48141002800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,293.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48141002800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 99th, minority 99th, housing 99th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48141002800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 20 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 48141002800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.65% of renter households, peaking at 1.7% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

How does tract 48141002800 compare to El Paso overall?

Tract 48141002800 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.
Q7

Was tract 48141002800 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. 43% 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

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

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