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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Woodland Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
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
- 46%Grade B
- 54%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.
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)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 55Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.18×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Woodland Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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