Southbrook Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201550201 · Harris, TX · pop 1,715 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 48201550201 covers part of the Southbrook area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,715. Severe burden reaches 44%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.9602, -95.4216 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southbrook scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Southbrook compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%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)
- 479Total filings 2020-21
- 6.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 17.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.35×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 Southbrook. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Southbrook
This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 48% of average household income of $29,000, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 28.6% against 11.3% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Harris County average of 49.5%. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Average gross rent is $1,148, 16% below the Houston average. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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