Baytown Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201254800 · Harris, TX · pop 2,738 · 76% of tract blocks fall in Baytown
Census tract 48201254800 covers part of Baytown, TX, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,738 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. 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 Baytown and the region
Centroid at 29.7456, -95.0086 · click any tract to drill in
Why Baytown scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Baytown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%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)
- 217Total filings 2020-21
- 2.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.01×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
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Baytown
Adults with no health insurance runs 32.1% against 11.3% nationally. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. Cost burden runs 62% here against 49.5% across Harris County.
The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.7/10. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $44,167, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,237, close to the Baytown average. 34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Baytown
Top eight tracts in Baytown ranked by composite eviction-risk score.