Within parent city
84
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Fort Worth Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48439101401 · Tarrant, TX · pop 6,078
Tract 48439101401 sits in Fort Worth eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. It is home to 6,078 residents. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units2,086
Renter share30.0%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate15.8%
Median income$55,436
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
80
th percentile
High
Within state
82
th percentile
High
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Worth and the region
Centroid at 32.7554, -97.2482 · click any tract to drill in
Why 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
15.8% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$1,052 rent vs county FMR
1.2
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 Fort Worth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 8%Grade B
- 29%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 1,708Total filings over 17 yrs
- 18.61%Avg annual filing rate
- 31.5%Peak (2007)
- 81Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 17% over the past 17 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 466Total filings 2020-21
- 6.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Fort Worth, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fort Worth
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.
At $1,052 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of Fort Worth commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 22.7% against 11.3% nationally.
56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Tarrant County average of 50.2%. Against the Tarrant County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
Court records carry 1,708 eviction filings across 17 observed years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 31.5% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.
In a typical year about 18.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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 48439101401
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48439101401?
Census tract 48439101401 in Fort Worth 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 48439101401?
Median gross rent is $1,052/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48439101401?
15.8% of residents in tract 48439101401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,078.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48439101401?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 76th, minority 80th, housing 62th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48439101401?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,708 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 48439101401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 18.61% of renter households, peaking at 31.5% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48439101401 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Fort Worth eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 48439101401 compare to Fort Worth overall?
Tract 48439101401 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.
Q8
Was tract 48439101401 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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