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Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally

Amarillo Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 48381020500 · Randall, TX · pop 3,888

Census tract 48381020500 covers part of Amarillo, TX, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,888 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 26% Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units1,451
Renter share42.2%
SVI overall0.55
Poverty rate17.0%
Median income$52,695

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 58 tracts In Amarillo
Very High
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 33 tracts In Randall
High
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#1,731 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Elevated
National
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#39,308 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Amarillo and the region

Centroid at 35.1745, -101.8436 · click any tract to drill in

Why Amarillo scores 4.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Amarillo
2.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.1
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
17.0% poverty · this tract
4.2
Supply constraint
$1,051 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Amarillo
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Amarillo
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Amarillo
2.0

How Amarillo compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Amarillo risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.6This tracttract 0205003.2Amarilloparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 55

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.

Comparable tracts

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Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Amarillo

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.5% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Randall County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.

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 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 39% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,051, close to the Amarillo average.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $52,695.

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 48381020500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48381020500?

Census tract 48381020500 in Amarillo scores 4.6/10 (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 48381020500?

Median gross rent is $1,051/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48381020500?

17.0% of residents in tract 48381020500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,888.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48381020500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 55th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 53th, minority 66th, housing 14th.
Q5

How does tract 48381020500 compare to Amarillo overall?

Tract 48381020500 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Amarillo at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Amarillo eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q6

Was tract 48381020500 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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