Westwood South Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.7/10. 100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Disability prevalence runs 52.4% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $34,753, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

At $1,031 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Houston commands. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Harris County average of 49.5%.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Court records carry 674 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 13.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 10.7% of renter households face a filing.

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.