Pleasantville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201212500 · Harris, TX · pop 3,517 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Tract 48201212500 sits in the Pleasantville area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7521, -95.2767 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pleasantville scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pleasantville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 14%Grade C
- 11%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 201Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.2%Peak (2014)
- 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 164Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×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 Pleasantville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Pleasantville
64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Harris County average of 49.5%. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. At $1,013 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Houston commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.9% against 11.3% nationally.
The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
The filing record is not thin: 201 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 9.2% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 6.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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