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Fondren Gardens Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201422200 · Harris, TX · pop 5,732 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Tract 48201422200 sits in the Fondren Gardens area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 5,732 residents. Severe burden reaches 43%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 56% Stable renters 39% Owners 5%
Tract context
Occupied units2,601
Renter share95.4%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate42.2%
Median income$30,518

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Fondren Gardens
Very High
Within parent city
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#112 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#193 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.6402, -95.5019 · click any tract to drill in

Why Fondren Gardens scores 5.1

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
42.2% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,090 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Fondren Gardens compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Fondren Gardens risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 4222003.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 2,039Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 15.27%Avg annual filing rate
  • 27.9%Peak (2015)
  • 539Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 48201422200
Filings climbed 315% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 1,783Total filings 2020-21
  • 23.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 30.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.75×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Fondren Gardens. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Fondren Gardens

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $30,518, 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.

Adults with no health insurance runs 29.4% against 11.3% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Harris County average of 49.5%. Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,090, 20% below the Houston average. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Court records carry 2,039 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 27.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 15.3% of renter households face a filing.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48201422200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201422200?

Census tract 48201422200 in the Fondren Gardens neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate 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 48201422200?

Median gross rent is $1,090/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201422200?

42.2% of residents in tract 48201422200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,732.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201422200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 97th, minority 97th, housing 73th.
Q5

Is tract 48201422200 considered part of Fondren Gardens?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201422200 fall within Fondren Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201422200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,039 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201422200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.27% of renter households, peaking at 27.9% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 48201422200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.75× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 48201422200 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201422200 scores 5.1/10, higher than 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

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

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