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Census Tract · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally

Stafford Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 48157671800 · Fort Bend, TX · pop 4,403 · 84% of tract blocks fall in Stafford

Census tract 48157671800 covers part of Stafford, TX, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25% Stable renters 47% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,908
Renter share71.6%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate7.7%
Median income$76,289

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 5 tracts In Stafford
Low
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#22 of 133 tracts In Fort Bend
High
Within state
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#1,025 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
High
National
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#32,842 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Stafford and the region

Centroid at 29.6299, -95.5593 · click any tract to drill in

Why Stafford scores 5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Stafford
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
7.7% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,443 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Stafford
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Stafford
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Stafford
4.3

How Stafford compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Stafford risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.0This tracttract 6718004.2Staffordparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 73

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 872Total filings over 14 yrs
  • 13.22%Avg annual filing rate
  • 22.8%Peak (2012)
  • 107Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48157671800
Filings climbed 296% over the past 14 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Stafford

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against Fort Bend County at 42.8%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Fort Bend County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 872 filings here across 14 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 22.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 13.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 48157671800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48157671800?

Census tract 48157671800 in Stafford scores 5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 48157671800?

Median gross rent is $1,443/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48157671800?

7.7% of residents in tract 48157671800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,403.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48157671800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 52th, minority 89th, housing 80th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48157671800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 872 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 48157671800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.22% of renter households, peaking at 22.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

How does tract 48157671800 compare to Stafford overall?

Tract 48157671800 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Stafford at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Stafford; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Stafford

Top eight tracts in Stafford ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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