Westmoreland Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Cost burden runs 38% here against 49.5% across Harris County.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Harris County average of 4.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,352, close to the Houston average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $69,277.

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.