The housing market change map below shows that housing market change in Austin has also generally followed the eastern crescent spatial pattern. Many of the same neighborhoods that are disproportionately home to vulnerable populations are experiencing or have experienced substantial housing price appreciation, or lie adjacent to a tract that already has experienced such change. In keeping with the Great Inversion thesis, the areas within the crescent that lie closest to downtown are generally likeliest to be Appreciated (i.e., to have already experienced price escalation; tracts shown in pink), while the tracts slightly further away are Accelerating (i.e., where the market is gaining steam; tracts shown in orange), and Adjacent tracts lie the furthest away (yellow).
Despite the demographic change that has occurred on all sides of downtown, including to the west, there has been little housing market appreciation vis-à-vis the rest of the city either immediately north or west of downtown. These neighborhoods, presumably, were already high value in 1990 and 2000, as reflected by their home prices, and whatever price appreciation has occurred in them since then has not altered their fundamental position in the socioeconomic hierarchy. They were elite places then, and remain so today.