Chinatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201432301 · Harris, TX · pop 3,614 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 48201432301 covers part of the Chinatown area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,614. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7325, -95.5413 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chinatown scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Chinatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%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)
- 1,014Total filings 2020-21
- 13.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 11.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.17×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chinatown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Chinatown
97% 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. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 28.3% against 11.3% nationally. Cost burden runs 60% here against 49.5% across Harris County. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Set annual rent against average income of $45,104 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Average gross rent is $1,216, 11% below the Houston average.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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.
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