Westbury Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Cost burden runs 63% here against 49.5% across Harris County. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,722, 27% above the Houston average. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 166 evictions over 7 years of observation.

It sits 0.8 points below the Harris County average of 4.0. The voucher gap is 12.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2010, when 9.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 5.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $84,861.

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