Lamar Terrace Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201431902 · Harris, TX · pop 2,810 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
48201431902 is a census tract in the Lamar Terrace area of Houston, TX. It scores 3/10 for landlords. roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Harris County average of 49.5%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7365, -95.4641 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lamar Terrace scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lamar Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 47
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
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)
- 794Total filings 2020-21
- 10.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 7.22×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lamar Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Lamar Terrace
Average gross rent is $2,107, 55% above the Houston average. The voucher gap is 37.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Running hot, supply constraint reads 8.8/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $114,429.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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