Candlelight Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201531900 · Harris, TX · pop 5,624 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 48201531900 covers part of the Candlelight Place area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,624 residents. Severe burden reaches 42%. 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 Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8529, -95.4499 · click any tract to drill in
Why Candlelight Place scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Candlelight Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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)
- 486Total filings over 7 yrs
- 11.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.3%Peak (2009)
- 79Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 347Total filings 2020-21
- 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Candlelight Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Candlelight Place
Cost burden runs 74% here against 49.5% across Harris County. Set annual rent against average income of $40,659 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 25.7% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 486 evictions over 7 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2009 at 20.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 11.4% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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