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

Riverside Terrace Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201312602 · Harris, TX · pop 2,353 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Census tract 48201312602 covers part of the Riverside Terrace area of Houston, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,353. 28% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Harris County average of 49.5%.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 44% Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units1,268
Renter share60.3%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate10.2%
Median income$160,592

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Riverside Terrace
Very Low
Within parent city
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#719 of 952 tracts In Houston
Low
Within county
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#778 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 29.7258, -95.3830 · click any tract to drill in

Why Riverside Terrace 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
10.2% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$2,166 rent vs county FMR
9.2
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 Riverside Terrace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Riverside Terrace risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 3126023.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 3

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

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)

  • 121Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.65×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 Riverside Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Riverside Terrace

At $2,166 a month, rents run 59% over what the rest of Houston commands. The voucher gap is 41.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9.2/10.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.2% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 1.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $160,592, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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 48201312602

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201312602?

Census tract 48201312602 in the Riverside Terrace 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 48201312602?

Median gross rent is $2,166/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201312602?

10.2% of residents in tract 48201312602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,353.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201312602?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 1th, minority 40th, housing 13th.
Q5

Is tract 48201312602 considered part of Riverside Terrace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201312602 fall within Riverside Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201312602 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.65× 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 48201312602 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201312602 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.
Q8

Was tract 48201312602 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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