Greenwood Forest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201551201 · Harris, TX · pop 4,990 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 48201551201 covers part of the Greenwood Forest area of Houston, TX, and scores 4.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. 89% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Harris County average of 49.5%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.9779, -95.4992 · click any tract to drill in
Why Greenwood Forest scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Greenwood Forest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 84%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%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)
- 497Total filings 2020-21
- 6.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.29×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Greenwood Forest. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Greenwood Forest
Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.9% against 11.3% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
Average gross rent is $1,206, 11% below the Houston average. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $53,176. 46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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