Hobby Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Set annual rent against average income of $49,038 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. At $1,752 a month, rents run 29% over what the rest of Houston commands.

The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Fort Bend County average of 3.8. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.0% against 11.3% nationally.

Court records carry 534 eviction filings across 14 observed years. The voucher gap is 14.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2014, when 21.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 15.3% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.