Songwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Adults with no health insurance runs 31.4% against 11.3% nationally. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Court records carry 28 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. Filings peaked in 2011 at 3.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,456, close to the Houston average.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $68,254.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.