Mason Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201542202 · Harris, TX · pop 8,625 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 48201542202 in the Mason Lakes area of Houston, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 8,625 residents. Cost burden runs 25% here against 49.5% across Harris County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8525, -95.7477 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mason Lakes scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mason Lakes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 50%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)
- 238Total filings 2020-21
- 3.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.17×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
What drives eviction risk in Mason Lakes
At $1,892 a month, rents run 39% over what the rest of Houston commands. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The voucher gap is 23.7%: 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. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.3% against 11.3% nationally.
Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 9% 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 7.4/10, 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.
Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $95,483.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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