Fifth Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 29.7% against 11.3% nationally. At $936 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Houston commands.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.5% against 31.5% nationally.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.