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Sand Creek Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201250901 · Harris, TX · pop 3,723 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Tract 48201250901 sits in the Sand Creek area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. 49% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 17% Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units1,734
Renter share41.0%
SVI overall0.54
Poverty rate9.1%
Median income$97,010

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Sand Creek
Very High
Within parent city
15 th percentile
Rank, 15th percentileLowHigh
#810 of 952 tracts In Houston
Very Low
Within county
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#751 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 30.0440, -95.1642 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sand Creek scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
9.1% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,965 rent vs county FMR
7.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5

How Sand Creek compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sand Creek risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 2509013.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 54

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 452Total filings 2020-21
  • 5.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 8.14×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Sand Creek. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sand Creek

At $1,965 a month, rents run 44% over what the rest of Houston commands. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The voucher gap is 28.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Harris County average of 49.5%.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $97,010.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 48201250901

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201250901?

Census tract 48201250901 in the Sand Creek neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 48201250901?

Median gross rent is $1,965/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201250901?

9.1% of residents in tract 48201250901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,723.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201250901?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 21th, household 61th, minority 42th, housing 88th.
Q5

Is tract 48201250901 considered part of Sand Creek?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201250901 fall within Sand Creek (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201250901 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 8.14× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48201250901 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201250901 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Houston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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