Chinatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $40,625 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 27.5% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.

Average gross rent is $1,143, 16% below the Houston average. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.