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Creekside Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Tract 48201542203 · Harris, TX · pop 10,790 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 48201542203 covers part of the Creekside area of Houston, TX, and scores 3.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 10,790. At $2,138 a month, rents run 57% over what the rest of Houston commands.

Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11% Stable renters 8% Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units3,261
Renter share18.5%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate15.3%
Median income$87,728

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Creekside
Moderate
Within parent city
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#554 of 952 tracts In Houston
Moderate
Within county
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#634 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Moderate
Within state
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#3,589 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.8583, -95.7372 · click any tract to drill in

Why Creekside scores 3.5

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
15.3% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$2,138 rent vs county FMR
9.0
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 Creekside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Creekside risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.5This tracttract 5422033.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 36

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 408Total filings 2020-21
  • 5.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.72×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Creekside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Creekside

The voucher gap is 39.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, supply constraint reads 9/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 25.0% against 11.3% nationally. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened.

That is riskier than roughly 31% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Harris County average of 4.0 closely.

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 48201542203

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201542203?

Census tract 48201542203 in the Creekside neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (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 48201542203?

Median gross rent is $2,138/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201542203?

15.3% of residents in tract 48201542203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 10,790.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201542203?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 46th, minority 88th, housing 3th.
Q5

Is tract 48201542203 considered part of Creekside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201542203 fall within Creekside (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201542203 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.72× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48201542203 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201542203 scores 3.5/10, right in line with 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

Highest-risk tracts in Houston

Top eight tracts in Houston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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