Ridge Top Eviction Risk: Moderate , Austin

85% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Travis County average of 44.8%.

Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. At $1,317 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Austin commands.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Travis County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.8% against 11.3% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,462 filings here across 12 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2011 at 13.0% of renter households.

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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.