Beachtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Galveston
Tract 48167724101 · Galveston, TX · pop 1,064 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 48167724101 in the Beachtown area of Galveston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Galveston and the region
Centroid at 29.3220, -94.7432 · click any tract to drill in
Why Beachtown scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Beachtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 4%Grade A
- 3%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 76Total filings 2020-21
- 1.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.90×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Beachtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Beachtown
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against Galveston County at 46.2%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Galveston County average of 4.0.
Average gross rent is $1,181, 9% below the Galveston average. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Galveston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $68,333.
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.
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