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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Meadowbrook Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201320201 · Harris, TX · pop 2,876 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

Tract 48201320201 sits in the Meadowbrook area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Population here is 2,876. 62% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 21% Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units799
Renter share57.4%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate41.0%
Median income$41,863

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 8 tracts In Meadowbrook
Very High
Within parent city
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#280 of 952 tracts In Houston
Elevated
Within county
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#135 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.7009, -95.2681 · click any tract to drill in

Why Meadowbrook scores 5.1

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
41.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,188 rent vs county FMR
2.8
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 Meadowbrook compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Meadowbrook risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 3202013.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 360Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 4.29×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 Meadowbrook. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Meadowbrook

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 48.5% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Harris County average of 49.5%.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $41,863 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Disability prevalence runs 46.7% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. At $1,188 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Houston commands.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10.

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 48201320201

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201320201?

Census tract 48201320201 in the Meadowbrook neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate 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 48201320201?

Median gross rent is $1,188/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201320201?

41.0% of residents in tract 48201320201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,876.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201320201?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 66th, minority 95th, housing 82th.
Q5

Is tract 48201320201 considered part of Meadowbrook?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201320201 fall within Meadowbrook (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201320201 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 4.29× 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 48201320201 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201320201 scores 5.1/10, higher 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 48201320201 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Houston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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