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Briarhills Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201451604 · Harris, TX · pop 3,614 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

48201451604 is a census tract in the Briarhills area of Houston, TX. It scores 3/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,614 residents. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 8% Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units1,652
Renter share21.4%
SVI overall0.49
Poverty rate4.4%
Median income$138,571

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Briarhills
Moderate
Within parent city
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#675 of 952 tracts In Houston
Low
Within county
17 th percentile
Rank, 17th percentileLowHigh
#926 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Very Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.7681, -95.6330 · click any tract to drill in

Why Briarhills scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
4.4% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$3,396 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5

How Briarhills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Briarhills risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 4516043.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 49

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 13Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.08×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Briarhills

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. Average gross rent is $3,396, 150% above the Houston average. The voucher gap is 122.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Harris County average of 49.5%. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10.

It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.4/10, 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 most pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $138,571.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48201451604

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201451604?

Census tract 48201451604 in the Briarhills neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 48201451604?

Median gross rent is $3,396/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201451604?

4.4% of residents in tract 48201451604 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,614.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201451604?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 49th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 78th, minority 51th, housing 43th.
Q5

Is tract 48201451604 considered part of Briarhills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201451604 fall within Briarhills (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201451604 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.08× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48201451604 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201451604 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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