Riverside Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201313000 · Harris, TX · pop 3,059 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 48201313000 covers part of the Riverside Terrace area of Houston, TX, and scores 4.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,059 residents. 44% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7200, -95.3745 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverside Terrace scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Riverside Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 66
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%Housing & transportation
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.
- 98%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 581Total filings over 7 yrs
- 10.69%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.6%Peak (2014)
- 94Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 373Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Riverside Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Riverside Terrace
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
At $1,131 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Houston commands. Court records carry 581 eviction filings across 7 observed years.
It sits 0.7 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. The worst year on record was 2014, when 11.6% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Houston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 10.7% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 48201313000
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