Westwood South Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.

The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $32,468, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Average gross rent is $947, 30% below the Houston average.

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Disability prevalence runs 48.1% against 31.5% nationally.

Against Harris County at 49.5%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.