Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Downtown Fort Worth Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48439101700 · Tarrant, TX · pop 1,868 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Tract 48439101700 sits in the Downtown Fort Worth area of Fort Worth eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. Population here is 1,868. Against Tarrant County at 50.2%, about one in five of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units283
Renter share59.4%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate55.2%
Median income$43,482
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
85
th percentile
High
Within county
80
th percentile
High
Within state
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Worth and the region
Centroid at 32.7548, -97.3132 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown Fort Worth scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fort Worth
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
55.2% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,150 rent vs county FMR
1.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Worth
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Worth
2.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Worth
2.5
How Downtown Fort Worth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 74%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)
- 2,576Total filings over 17 yrs
- 33.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 56.3%Peak (2012)
- 27Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 88% over the past 17 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 129Total filings 2020-21
- 1.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.44×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Fort Worth, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown Fort Worth. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Downtown Fort Worth
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 55%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.8% against 31.5% nationally.
Adults with no health insurance runs 27.8% against 11.3% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.
Average gross rent is $1,150, 24% below the Fort Worth average. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Tarrant County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
Court records carry 2,576 eviction filings across 17 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 56.3% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Fort Worth. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 33.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 48439101700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48439101700?
Census tract 48439101700 in the Downtown Fort Worth neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 48439101700?
Median gross rent is $1,150/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 21% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48439101700?
55.2% of residents in tract 48439101700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,868.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48439101700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 97th, minority 82th, housing 84th.
Q5
Is tract 48439101700 considered part of Downtown Fort Worth?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48439101700 fall within Downtown Fort Worth (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48439101700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,576 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 48439101700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 33.73% of renter households, peaking at 56.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48439101700 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.44× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Fort Worth eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 48439101700 compare to Fort Worth overall?
Tract 48439101700 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Fort Worth at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Worth eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 48439101700 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. 74% 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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