Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Woodland Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201510400 · Harris, TX · pop 3,769 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 48201510400 covers part of the Woodland Heights area of Houston, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,762
Renter share39.2%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate1.3%
Median income$161,810
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
31
th percentile
Low
Within county
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
35
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7843, -95.3924 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woodland Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
1.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,293 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 Woodland Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 32%Grade B
- 58%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 86Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.14%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2011)
- 12Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 93Total filings 2020-21
- 1.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.41×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Woodland Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Woodland Heights
Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Against Harris County at 49.5%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Disability prevalence runs 18.7% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
Court records carry 86 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 2.0% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.3/10. Against average income of $161,810, annual rent is just 10%.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201510400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201510400?
Census tract 48201510400 in the Woodland Heights 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 48201510400?
Median gross rent is $1,293/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201510400?
1.3% of residents in tract 48201510400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,769.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201510400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 37th, household 11th, minority 43th, housing 66th.
Q5
Is tract 48201510400 considered part of Woodland Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201510400 fall within Woodland Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201510400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 86 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201510400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.14% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201510400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.41× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 48201510400 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201510400 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.
Q9
Was tract 48201510400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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