Old Sixth Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $62,276, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $1,728, 27% above the Houston average.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. The voucher gap is 13.0%: 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 D ("Hazardous"). 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 #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.