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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

East Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 48201231100 · Harris, TX · pop 5,256 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201231100 in the East Houston area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,256. 72% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34% Stable renters 4% Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,456
Renter share37.9%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate40.9%
Median income$31,875

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In East Houston
Very Low
Within parent city
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#122 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#79 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Very High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.8278, -95.2500 · click any tract to drill in

Why East Houston scores 5.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
40.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,271 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5

How East Houston compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
East Houston risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 2311003.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 100

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)

  • 337Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 11.90%Avg annual filing rate
  • 15.7%Peak (2009)
  • 44Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48201231100
Filings dropped 28% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 369Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.52×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within East Houston. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in East Houston

89% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Harris County average of 49.5%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 39.6% against 11.3% nationally. Annualized rent equals 48% of average household income of $31,875, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 41%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 46.0% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.

The filing record is not thin: 337 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2009, when 15.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 11.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

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 48201231100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201231100?

Census tract 48201231100 in the East Houston neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 48201231100?

Median gross rent is $1,271/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 89% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201231100?

40.9% of residents in tract 48201231100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,256.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201231100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 95th, minority 98th, housing 97th.
Q5

Is tract 48201231100 considered part of East Houston?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201231100 fall within East Houston (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201231100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 337 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201231100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.90% of renter households, peaking at 15.7% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48201231100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.52× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48201231100 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201231100 scores 5.1/10, higher than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

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

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