Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Old West End Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201510601 · Harris, TX · pop 3,439 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 48201510601 covers part of the Old West End area of Houston, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against Harris County at 49.5%, about a quarter of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 41%
Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units1,996
Renter share53.5%
SVI overall0.00
Poverty rate1.7%
Median income$125,652
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
2
th percentile
Very 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 29.7738, -95.4032 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old West End 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
1.7% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,994 rent vs county FMR
8.0
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 Old West End compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 0
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%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
- 0%Grade B
- 8%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 236Total filings 2020-21
- 3.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 5.83×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Old West End
Average gross rent is $1,994, 47% above the Houston average. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. The voucher gap is 30.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Disability prevalence runs 13.7% against 31.5% nationally.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0. 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.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201510601
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201510601?
Census tract 48201510601 in the Old West End 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 48201510601?
Median gross rent is $1,994/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201510601?
1.7% of residents in tract 48201510601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,439.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201510601?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 0th, minority 64th, housing 7th.
Q5
Is tract 48201510601 considered part of Old West End?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201510601 fall within Old West End (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48201510601 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 5.83× 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.
Q7
How does tract 48201510601 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201510601 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.
Q8
Was tract 48201510601 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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