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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Fondren Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%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)
- 2,039Total filings over 7 yrs
- 15.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 27.9%Peak (2015)
- 539Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1,783Total filings 2020-21
- 23.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 30.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.75×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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
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.
About tract 48201422200
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