Westfield Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201542002 · Harris, TX · pop 2,241 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 48201542002 in the Westfield area of Houston, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. 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 29.8273, -95.7110 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westfield scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 2%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)
- 275Total filings 2020-21
- 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 4.37×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 Westfield. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Westfield
At $1,841 a month, rents run 35% over what the rest of Houston commands. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10.
The voucher gap is 20.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $139,940, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
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. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 48201542002
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