Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Kashmere Gardens Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201210900 · Harris, TX · pop 1,676 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 5/10, tract 48201210900 in the Kashmere Gardens area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,676 residents. The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 30%
Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units695
Renter share53.5%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate21.0%
Median income$47,117
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8042, -95.3312 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kashmere Gardens scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
21.0% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$1,189 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5
How Kashmere Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 10%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.
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)
- 177Total filings over 7 yrs
- 9.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.1%Peak (2012)
- 22Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 203Total filings 2020-21
- 2.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.10×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kashmere Gardens. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kashmere Gardens
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs 43% here against 49.5% across Harris County.
Adults with no health insurance runs 21.4% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 177 filings here across 7 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,189, 13% below the Houston average.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 15.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 9.4% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201210900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201210900?
Census tract 48201210900 in the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood scores 5/10 (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 48201210900?
Median gross rent is $1,189/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201210900?
21.0% of residents in tract 48201210900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,676.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201210900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 97th, minority 97th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 48201210900 considered part of Kashmere Gardens?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201210900 fall within Kashmere Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201210900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 177 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201210900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.43% of renter households, peaking at 15.1% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201210900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.10× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 48201210900 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201210900 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 48201210900 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 10% 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.
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