Alief Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Against Harris County at 49.5%, 75% of renters here are cost-burdened. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $54,282, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 23.1% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.

Court records carry 355 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Average gross rent is $1,563, 15% above the Houston average.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 9.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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