Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Foster Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201313600 · Harris, TX · pop 4,563 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 48201313600 sits in the Foster Place area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,804
Renter share60.0%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate44.3%
Median income$28,961
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
98
th percentile
Very High
Within county
89
th percentile
High
Within state
92
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6916, -95.3576 · click any tract to drill in
Why Foster Place scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
44.3% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$979 rent vs county FMR
1.4
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 Foster Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 11%Grade B
- 24%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 620Total filings over 7 yrs
- 10.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.4%Peak (2013)
- 77Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 470Total filings 2020-21
- 6.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.84×Ratio to 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 Foster Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Foster Place
The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $28,961 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Cost burden runs 61% here against 49.5% across Harris County. Adults with no health insurance runs 27.6% against 11.3% nationally.
At $979 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Houston commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10.
Disability prevalence runs 45.8% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
The filing record is not thin: 620 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2013 at 11.4% of renter households.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201313600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201313600?
Census tract 48201313600 in the Foster Place 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 48201313600?
Median gross rent is $979/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201313600?
44.3% of residents in tract 48201313600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,563.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201313600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 77th, minority 96th, housing 82th.
Q5
Is tract 48201313600 considered part of Foster Place?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201313600 fall within Foster Place (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201313600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 620 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201313600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.27% of renter households, peaking at 11.4% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201313600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.84× 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 48201313600 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201313600 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.
Q9
Was tract 48201313600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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