Walnut Bend Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201452203 · Harris, TX · pop 3,072 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
48201452203 is a census tract in the Walnut Bend area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,072. Severe burden reaches 43%. 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 29.7317, -95.5620 · click any tract to drill in
Why Walnut Bend scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Walnut Bend compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%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)
- 1,254Total filings 2020-21
- 16.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.72×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 Walnut Bend. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Walnut Bend
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 81% 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. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Against Harris County at 49.5%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $1,094 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Houston commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.8% against 11.3% nationally.
It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $47,336.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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