Fifth Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 26.3% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Houston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.