Zilker Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.3% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Travis County average of 4.0.

Court records carry 217 eviction filings across 12 observed years. The severe-burden share is 8%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,895 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Austin commands.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 4.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.3/10, 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.