Northampton Oaks Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

At $1,866 a month, rents run 37% over what the rest of Houston commands. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 49.5% across Harris County.

The voucher gap is 22.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 1.0 points below the Harris County average of 4.0.

The filing record is not thin: 116 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 18.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 12.4% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $134,836, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.