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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Maplewood South/North Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201422405 · Harris, TX · pop 1,647 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Census tract 48201422405 covers part of the Maplewood South/North area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,647 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 53% Stable renters 47% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units962
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate46.4%
Median income$16,366

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In Maplewood South/North
Very High
Within parent city
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#167 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#197 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.6595, -95.5070 · click any tract to drill in

Why Maplewood South/North scores 5.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
46.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Maplewood South/North compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Maplewood South/North risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 4224053.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 216Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 5.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.51×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Maplewood South/North. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Maplewood South/North

The poverty rate is 46%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Disability prevalence runs 52.2% against 31.5% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.7% against 11.3% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 53% of renters.

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 48201422405

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201422405?

Census tract 48201422405 in the Maplewood South/North 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 poverty rate in tract 48201422405?

46.4% of residents in tract 48201422405 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,647.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201422405?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 97th, minority 94th, housing 70th.
Q4

Is tract 48201422405 considered part of Maplewood South/North?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201422405 fall within Maplewood South/North (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 48201422405 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.51× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q6

How does tract 48201422405 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201422405 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.
Sibling tracts

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

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