Sundown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201542401 · Harris, TX · pop 5,078 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 48201542401 sits in the Sundown area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 5,078 residents. 40% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7954, -95.7245 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sundown scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sundown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 84%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%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)
- 326Total filings 2020-21
- 4.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.59×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sundown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Sundown
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $45,234, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 25.5% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Harris County average of 49.5%.
On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,408, close to the Houston average.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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