Gulf Palms Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Cost burden runs 65% here against 49.5% across Harris County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $44,479, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 78% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 27.0% against 11.3% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,022 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 21.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 19.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.