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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow East Houston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%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)
- 337Total filings over 7 yrs
- 11.90%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.7%Peak (2009)
- 44Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 369Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.52×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Houston. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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