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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Woodland Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201511302 · Harris, TX · pop 4,422 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

48201511302 is a census tract in the Woodland Heights area of Houston, TX. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 32% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 28% Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units2,284
Renter share40.3%
SVI overall0.08
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$185,947

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 5 tracts In Woodland Heights
Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#951 of 952 tracts In Houston
Very Low
Within county
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#962 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 29.7974, -95.3935 · click any tract to drill in

Why Woodland Heights 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
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,348 rent vs county FMR
3.8
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.
Woodland Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 5113023.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 8

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

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.

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)

  • 47Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 0.77%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.5%Peak (2012)
  • 4Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48201511302
Filings climbed 100% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 55Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.18×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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Woodland Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Woodland Heights

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0. Court records carry 47 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.5% 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 0.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $185,947, annual rent is just 9%. 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 least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48201511302

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201511302?

Census tract 48201511302 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 48201511302?

Median gross rent is $1,348/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201511302?

4.9% of residents in tract 48201511302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,422.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201511302?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 3th, minority 27th, housing 54th.
Q5

Is tract 48201511302 considered part of Woodland Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201511302 fall within Woodland Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201511302?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 47 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201511302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.77% of renter households, peaking at 1.5% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48201511302 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.18× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48201511302 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201511302 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 48201511302 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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