Fifth Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201211102 · Harris, TX · pop 2,215 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 48201211102 covers part of the Fifth Ward area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,215 residents. 44% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7871, -95.3275 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fifth Ward scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fifth Ward compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%Housing & transportation
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
- 13%Grade C
- 55%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)
- 317Total filings 2020-21
- 4.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.86×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 Fifth Ward. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Fifth Ward
Annualized rent equals 54% of average household income of $27,844, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 42.4% against 11.3% nationally.
The poverty rate is 58%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 53.8% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. 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.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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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