South Woodland Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0.

The filing record is not thin: 330 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 20.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 13.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 24% 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 4.9/10, 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. Average gross rent is $1,346, close to the Houston average.

Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $81,017.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.