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

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.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 11% Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units1,947
Renter share43.9%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate28.2%
Median income$40,659

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Candlelight Place
Very High
Within parent city
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#15 of 952 tracts In Houston
Very High
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#291 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Elevated
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 29.8529, -95.4499 · click any tract to drill in

Why Candlelight Place 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
28.2% poverty · this tract
7.1
Supply constraint
$1,434 rent vs county FMR
4.4
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 Candlelight Place compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Candlelight Place risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 5319003.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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)

  • 486Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 11.40%Avg annual filing rate
  • 20.3%Peak (2009)
  • 79Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48201531900
Filings dropped 34% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 347Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Candlelight Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 48201531900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201531900?

Census tract 48201531900 in the Candlelight Place 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 48201531900?

Median gross rent is $1,434/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 74% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201531900?

28.2% of residents in tract 48201531900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,624.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201531900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 96th, minority 93th, housing 83th.
Q5

Is tract 48201531900 considered part of Candlelight Place?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201531900 fall within Candlelight Place (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201531900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 486 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201531900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.40% of renter households, peaking at 20.3% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48201531900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48201531900 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201531900 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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