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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 26% Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units568
Renter share57.9%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate16.0%
Median income$68,333

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Beachtown
Very Low
Within parent city
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 23 tracts In Galveston
Low
Within county
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#24 of 102 tracts In Galveston
High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#375 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Galveston
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.9
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
16.0% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$1,181 rent vs county FMR
2.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Galveston
7.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Galveston
9.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Galveston
7.8

How Beachtown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Beachtown risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 7241014.4Galvestonparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 76Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.90×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Beachtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 48167724101

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48167724101?

Census tract 48167724101 in the Beachtown neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 48167724101?

Median gross rent is $1,181/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48167724101?

16.0% of residents in tract 48167724101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,064.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48167724101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 85th, minority 54th, housing 92th.
Q5

Is tract 48167724101 considered part of Beachtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48167724101 fall within Beachtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48167724101 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.90× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48167724101 compare to Galveston overall?

Tract 48167724101 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of Galveston at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Galveston; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 48167724101 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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

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