Oates Prairie Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201232500 · Harris, TX · pop 4,210 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201232500 in the Oates Prairie area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 71% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Harris County average of 49.5%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8060, -95.2503 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oates Prairie scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Oates Prairie compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 320Total filings over 7 yrs
- 18.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.4%Peak (2013)
- 35Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 178Total filings 2020-21
- 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.60×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
What drives eviction risk in Oates Prairie
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 38.2% against 11.3% nationally. The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Set annual rent against average income of $41,813 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Disability prevalence runs 46.7% against 31.5% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Average gross rent is $1,147, 16% below the Houston average.
The filing record is not thin: 320 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 20.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 18.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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