East Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201230900 · Harris, TX · pop 4,473 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 48201230900 covers part of the East Houston area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,473. 56% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8182, -95.2826 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Houston scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Houston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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)
- 692Total filings over 7 yrs
- 13.85%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.4%Peak (2014)
- 75Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 370Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.53×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Houston. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in East Houston
Cost burden runs roughly three in four here against 49.5% across Harris County. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.7/10.
The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 31.5% against 11.3% nationally. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $30,088, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 46.9% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
At $1,024 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Houston commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 692 filings here across 7 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 20.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 13.8% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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