Blackshear-Prospect Hill Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin
Tract 48453000901 · Travis, TX · pop 3,171 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
How risky is the Blackshear-Prospect Hill neighborhood of Austin for landlords? Census tract 48453000901 scores 5.3/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 48% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 29% of renter households, a moderate level, and 12% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,512 a month against an average household income of $112,130 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 64% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
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Why Blackshear-Prospect Hill scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Blackshear-Prospect Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 158Total filings over 12 yrs
- 4.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2006)
- 10Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Blackshear-Prospect Hill
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 7.9/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Austin eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Travis County average of 5.2 and above the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 100% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 37th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 48453000901
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