Old Sixth Ward Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. At $1,763 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Houston commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened.

13% 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 below the Harris County average of 4.0.

The voucher gap is 15.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 61 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2010, when 2.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Houston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.8/10. Against average income of $145,909, annual rent is just 14%.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.