Chinatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Against Harris County at 49.5%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. 94% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. Average gross rent is $976, 28% below the Houston average. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 45.9% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 241 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2010, when 3.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.