Fort Worth Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48439104503 · Tarrant, TX · pop 2,537
48439104503 is a census tract in Fort Worth, TX. It scores 4.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,537 residents. 60% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Worth and the region
Centroid at 32.6914, -97.3262 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fort Worth scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fort Worth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
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
- 18%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 60%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.
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)
- 117Total filings over 16 yrs
- 3.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2011)
- 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 63Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.50×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Fort Worth, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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What drives eviction risk in Fort Worth
Adults with no health insurance runs 43.2% against 11.3% nationally. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.
Cost burden runs 60% here against 50.2% across Tarrant County. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Average gross rent is $1,106, 27% below the Fort Worth average. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
It sits 1.0 points above the Tarrant County average of 3.8. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 117 filings here across 16 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 4.9% 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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