Central City Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $63,950 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

At $1,720 a month, rents run 26% over what the rest of Houston commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Cost burden runs 55% here against 49.5% across Harris County.

The voucher gap is 12.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 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.

Nationally it ranks #50,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.