Central City Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201314003 · Harris, TX · pop 2,322 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 48201314003 covers part of the Central City area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,322. This is renter territory: 99% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6919, -95.3978 · click any tract to drill in
Why Central City scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Central City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 13%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 113Total filings 2020-21
- 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 37.67×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 Central City. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Central City
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Average gross rent is $1,162, 15% below the Houston average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.9/10, 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.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $53,149.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 48201314003
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