Pamela Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201330400 · Harris, TX · pop 4,836 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 48201330400 sits in the Pamela Heights area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 4,836 residents. Adults with no health insurance runs 34.4% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6160, -95.4545 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pamela Heights scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pamela Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
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)
- 309Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.2%Peak (2011)
- 49Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 278Total filings 2020-21
- 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.07×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pamela Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Pamela Heights
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. At $1,072 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Houston commands.
Cost burden runs 56% here against 49.5% across Harris County. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 309 filings here across 7 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 7.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.7% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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