Westwood South Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201433503 · Harris, TX · pop 2,597 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201433503 in the Westwood South area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,597 residents. Adults with no health insurance runs 39.5% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6868, -95.5554 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westwood South scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westwood South compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%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)
- 25Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.85×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 Westwood South. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Westwood South
This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. At $982 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Houston commands.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Severe burden reaches 8%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10. 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.
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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