Spring Branch East Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201520400 · Harris, TX · pop 3,792 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
48201520400 is a census tract in the Spring Branch East area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,792 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8069, -95.4770 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spring Branch East scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Spring Branch East compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 239Total filings over 7 yrs
- 4.31%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.7%Peak (2014)
- 36Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 615Total filings 2020-21
- 8.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.27×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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
Adults with no health insurance runs 40.4% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 43%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Disability prevalence runs 44.7% against 31.5% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,052, 23% below the Houston average. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
Court records carry 239 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.7% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 10/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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 48201520400
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