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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Chinatown Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201433300 · Harris, TX · pop 4,842 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 48201433300 in the Chinatown area of Houston, TX reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 28% here against 49.5% across Harris County.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 25% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,680
Renter share34.0%
SVI overall0.66
Poverty rate10.9%
Median income$87,917

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 17 tracts In Chinatown
Very Low
Within parent city
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#696 of 952 tracts In Houston
Low
Within county
18 th percentile
Rank, 18th percentileLowHigh
#912 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Very Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#4,505 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.6983, -95.5291 · click any tract to drill in

Why Chinatown scores 3

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
10.9% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,560 rent vs county FMR
5.2
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 Chinatown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Chinatown risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 4333003.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 66

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)

  • 155Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 5.19%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.3%Peak (2013)
  • 25Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48201433300
Filings climbed 25% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 122Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.87×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 Chinatown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Chinatown

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.0% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 155 filings here across 7 tracked years. At $1,560 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Houston commands.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 6.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 48201433300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201433300?

Census tract 48201433300 in the Chinatown neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 48201433300?

Median gross rent is $1,560/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201433300?

10.9% of residents in tract 48201433300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,842.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201433300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 66th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 66th, household 41th, minority 83th, housing 59th.
Q5

Is tract 48201433300 considered part of Chinatown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201433300 fall within Chinatown (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201433300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 155 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201433300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.19% of renter households, peaking at 6.3% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48201433300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.87× 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 48201433300 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201433300 scores 3/10, lower 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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