Spring Branch East Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201520302 · Harris, TX · pop 2,624 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
48201520302 is a census tract in the Spring Branch East area of Houston, TX. It scores 4.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,624 residents. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7987, -95.4803 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spring Branch East scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Spring Branch East compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%Housing & transportation
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)
- 169Total filings 2020-21
- 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.19×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 Spring Branch East. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Spring Branch East
Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.3% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
At $1,182 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Houston commands. That is riskier than roughly 59% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $83,234, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 53% of renters.
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.
About tract 48201520302
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