Melrose Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201221501 · Harris, TX · pop 5,636 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
48201221501 is a census tract in the Melrose Park area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,636 residents. Severe burden reaches 42%. 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 Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8620, -95.3930 · click any tract to drill in
Why Melrose Park scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Melrose Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%Housing & transportation
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)
- 116Total filings 2020-21
- 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.17×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Melrose Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Melrose Park
Adults with no health insurance runs 43.2% against 11.3% nationally. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. At $1,149 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Houston commands. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 10/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 53% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $54,070.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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