Vassar Place Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201411902 · Harris, TX · pop 2,035 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 48201411902 in the Vassar Place area of Houston, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,035 residents. Average gross rent is $2,122, 56% above the Houston average.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7266, -95.3930 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vassar Place scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Vassar Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 93%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 141Total filings 2020-21
- 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 5.13×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Vassar Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Vassar Place
The voucher gap is 38.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 8.9/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
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 #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $113,289.
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.
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