Monthly Landlord Tenant Court Caseloads in Austin 2023-2025

January 2023 to present monthly caseload information for landlord/tenant cases in Austin courts. The dataset distinguishes between eviction cases and repair and remedy cases, with data reporting a two-month lag. It is maintained by the City of Austin.

Use Cases

• Analyze monthly trends in eviction case filings to assess housing stability impacts.
• Compare the volume of repair and remedy cases against eviction cases to understand tenant legal actions.
• Track caseload distribution by court to identify jurisdictional processing patterns for landlord/tenant disputes.

Strengths

• Provides monthly temporal granularity from January 2023 onward.
• Explicitly categorizes cases into eviction and repair and remedy types under Texas Property Code.
• Maintained and updated by the City of Austin, an authoritative local government source.

Limitations

• The most recent data is consistently two months behind due to reporting deadlines, limiting real-time analysis.
• Lacks detailed case-level attributes such as plaintiff, defendant, outcome, or monetary amounts.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the City of Austin, not representative of Texas or national trends.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin.

Collection Method

Aggregated from court caseload reports submitted under statutory deadlines.

Time Range

January 2023 to present (with a two-month reporting lag).

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026, with data current up to approximately January 2026.

Geography

City of Austin, Texas, United States.