Chinatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 49.5% across Harris County.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 1.0 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Average gross rent is $1,184, 13% below the Houston average.

Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.