Sugar Land Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 48157672100 · Fort Bend, TX · pop 3,837
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 48157672100 (Sugar Land in Fort Bend County, Texas) comes in at 4.9/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 34% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 68% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 48% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,981 monthly, set against $117,326 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 19% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Sugar Land and the region
Centroid at 29.6144, -95.6247 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sugar Land scores 1.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sugar Land compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 25%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 49Total filings over 14 yrs
- 1.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.9%Peak (2009)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Sugar Land
What moves this score most is supply constraint at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Sugar Land eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Fort Bend County average of 4.8 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 49 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 1.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 2.9% of renter households in 2009.
The tract is White and Asian and ranks around the 46th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Sugar Land
Top eight tracts in Sugar Land ranked by composite eviction-risk score.