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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Greatwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Sugar Land

Tract 48157674601 · Fort Bend, TX · pop 3,198 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 48157674601 in the Greatwood area of Sugar Land, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,198. Severe burden reaches 49%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 4% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units1,251
Renter share10.0%
SVI overall0.38
Poverty rate3.8%
Median income$142,344

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Greatwood
Very High
Within parent city
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#24 of 30 tracts In Sugar Land
Low
Within county
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#88 of 133 tracts In Fort Bend
Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Sugar Land and the region

Centroid at 29.5557, -95.6790 · click any tract to drill in

Why Greatwood scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Sugar Land
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
3.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,943 rent vs county FMR
7.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Sugar Land
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Sugar Land
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Sugar Land
2.0

How Greatwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Greatwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 6746013.2Sugar Landparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 38

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 60Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 5.78%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.5%Peak (2016)
  • 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48157674601
Filings climbed 33% over the past 14 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Greatwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Greatwood

Cost burden runs 58% here against 42.8% across Fort Bend County. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

The voucher gap is 27.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 60 evictions over 13 years of observation. It sits 0.8 points below the Fort Bend County average of 3.8. The worst year on record was 2016, when 6.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 4.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $142,344, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 48157674601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48157674601?

Census tract 48157674601 in the Greatwood neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 48157674601?

Median gross rent is $1,943/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48157674601?

3.8% of residents in tract 48157674601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,198.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48157674601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 38th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 38th, minority 46th, housing 51th.
Q5

Is tract 48157674601 considered part of Greatwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48157674601 fall within Greatwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48157674601?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 60 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 48157674601 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.78% of renter households, peaking at 6.5% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 48157674601 compare to Sugar Land overall?

Tract 48157674601 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Sugar Land at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Sugar Land eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Sugar Land

Top eight tracts in Sugar Land ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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