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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Royal Shores Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201250902 · Harris, TX · pop 5,709 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 48201250902 covers part of the Royal Shores area of Houston, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,709 residents. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 3% Owners 97%
Tract context
Occupied units1,956
Renter share2.8%
SVI overall0.00
Poverty rate0.3%
Median income$203,333

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Royal Shores
Moderate
Within parent city
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#648 of 952 tracts In Houston
Low
Within county
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#752 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 30.0471, -95.1441 · click any tract to drill in

Why Royal Shores 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
0.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Royal Shores compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Royal Shores risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 2509023.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 0

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)

  • 9Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.67×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Royal Shores

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 3% 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 1/10, 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 least pressured.

Poverty sits at 0%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48201250902

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201250902?

Census tract 48201250902 in the Royal Shores 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 poverty rate in tract 48201250902?

0.3% of residents in tract 48201250902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,709.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201250902?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 7th, minority 18th, housing 0th.
Q4

Is tract 48201250902 considered part of Royal Shores?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201250902 fall within Royal Shores (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 48201250902 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.67× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q6

How does tract 48201250902 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201250902 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.
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