Chinatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 47.9% against 31.5% nationally. Cost burden runs 59% here against 49.5% across Harris County. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

At $1,052 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Houston commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 494 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 7.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.