Village of Oak Forest Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0.

The filing record is not thin: 58 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.9% of renter households were served. Average gross rent is $1,483, 9% above the Houston average.

In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $98,777. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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