Laurel Creek Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

At $1,769 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Houston commands. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 49.5% across Harris County. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

The voucher gap is 15.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 15% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, 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.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $90,840.

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.