East Downtown Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201310101 · Harris, TX · pop 2,764 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 48201310101 covers part of the East Downtown area of Houston, TX, and scores 3.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7525, -95.3436 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Downtown scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Downtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 45
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 70%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 19%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 370Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.77×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Downtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in East Downtown
37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Harris County average of 49.5%. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. At $1,663 a month, rents run 22% over what the rest of Houston commands.
Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $93,898. 58% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
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