Southampton Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

At $2,387 a month, rents run 75% over what the rest of Houston commands. The voucher gap is 56.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, 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. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 12 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 1.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Houston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 0.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $217,955, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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