Fondren Gardens Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201330303 · Harris, TX · pop 4,588 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
48201330303 is a census tract in the Fondren Gardens area of Houston, TX. It scores 3.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,588 residents. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6264, -95.4975 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fondren Gardens scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fondren Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%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)
- 807Total filings over 7 yrs
- 14.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.2%Peak (2010)
- 58Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 574Total filings 2020-21
- 7.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.11×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Fondren Gardens. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Fondren Gardens
Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 24.7% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 807 filings here across 7 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 26.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 14.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 33% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
49% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Harris County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,296, close to the Houston average.
Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $57,679. 63% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
About tract 48201330303
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