Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Meyerland Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201421700 · Harris, TX · pop 4,873 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Tract 48201421700 sits in the Meyerland area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Population here is 4,873. Severe burden reaches 43%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units1,825
Renter share40.8%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate29.4%
Median income$79,402
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
90
th percentile
Very High
Within county
83
th percentile
High
Within state
92
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6869, -95.4877 · click any tract to drill in
Why Meyerland scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
29.4% poverty · this tract
7.3
Supply constraint
$1,064 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5
How Meyerland compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
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)
- 58Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.5%Peak (2013)
- 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 43% over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 105Total filings 2020-21
- 1.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.89×Ratio to 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 Meyerland. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Meyerland
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Average gross rent is $1,064, 22% below the Houston average. Cost burden runs 43% here against 49.5% across Harris County.
It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 58 evictions over 7 years of observation.
Adults with no health insurance runs 18.7% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.5% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201421700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201421700?
Census tract 48201421700 in the Meyerland neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate 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 48201421700?
Median gross rent is $1,064/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201421700?
29.4% of residents in tract 48201421700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,873.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201421700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 77th, minority 77th, housing 57th.
Q5
Is tract 48201421700 considered part of Meyerland?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201421700 fall within Meyerland (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201421700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 58 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201421700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.37% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201421700 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.89× 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 48201421700 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201421700 scores 5.1/10, higher 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.
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