Hobby Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48157670602 · Fort Bend, TX · pop 1,896 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 48157670602 covers the Hobby neighborhood of Houston, home to 1,896 residents. For landlords it grades 5.2/10, a moderate reading. It lands near the 44th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 74% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 61% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,103 a month while the average household earns $51,591 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 24% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.5898, -95.5020 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hobby scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hobby compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 358Total filings over 14 yrs
- 26.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.4%Peak (2014)
- 33Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Hobby
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 4.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Houston eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Fort Bend County average of 4.8 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 358 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 26.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 17.4% of renter households in 2014.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 81st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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