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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Rice Village Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201412300 · Harris, TX · pop 6,919 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 48201412300 covers part of the Rice Village area of West University Place, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 7% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 6% Owners 94%
Tract context
Occupied units2,375
Renter share6.5%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate1.8%
Median income$250,001

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Rice Village
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Houston
Very Low
Within county
23 th percentile
Rank, 23rd percentileLowHigh
#864 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.7158, -95.4242 · click any tract to drill in

Why Rice Village scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Houston
6.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
1.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$3,039 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
2.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
1.9

How Rice Village compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Rice Village risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 4123003.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 3

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 6Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 1.75%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.9%Peak (2009)
  • 2Filings in 2011 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48201412300
Filings dropped 100% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 12Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 8.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Rice Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Rice Village

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. The voucher gap is 98.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.1% against 31.5% nationally.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Court records carry 6 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

At $3,039 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of West University Place commands. The worst year on record was 2009, when 2.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 48201412300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201412300?

Census tract 48201412300 in the Rice Village neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 48201412300?

Median gross rent is $3,039/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 7% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201412300?

1.8% of residents in tract 48201412300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,919.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201412300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 19th, minority 45th, housing 3th.
Q5

Is tract 48201412300 considered part of Rice Village?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201412300 fall within Rice Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201412300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 6 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 48201412300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.75% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48201412300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 8.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48201412300 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201412300 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Houston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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