Greenwood Forest Eviction Risk: Lower
4 census tracts · pop 16,443 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 3.8/10 · range 3–4.9
Greenwood Forest is a 4-tract neighborhood of Houston, TX, population 16,443. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 3.8/10, in the Lower tier. Cost burden runs 62% against 32.1% citywide, putting Greenwood Forest 29.5% over its own city.
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. 23% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 3 to 4.9, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk.
On the softer side is housing-court posture, at 2.5/10. Court records for this tract carry 166 eviction filings.
Running cool is economic stress, at 2.6/10. The worst year on record was 2009, when filings touched 23.3% of renter households.
The most recent observed rate, 5.4% in 2015, is well off that peak. Among the 397 mapped neighborhoods of Houston, it ranks #157 by risk, the middle third. For a like-for-like read, Wimbledon Forest and Sherwood Oaks score within a fraction of it.
Social vulnerability runs high at 7.7/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input. Average gross rent runs $1,317, close to the Houston average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $71,786.
For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 3.8 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.
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Risk heat across Greenwood Forest and the region
Click any tract to drill in · 4 tracts span score 3–4.9
Why Greenwood Forest scores 3.8
9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendlyGreenwood Forest vs. parent city, state, U.S.
Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).
How uniformly does eviction risk play out in Greenwood Forest?
Left: distribution of constituent tract scores. Right: every tract as a heat square. Click any square to drill in.
4 tracts in Greenwood Forest
Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.
| Tract↕ | Score↕ | Pop↕ | % over 30% on rent↕ | Average rent↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48201551201 | 4.9 | 4,990 | 89% | $1,206 |
| 48201551000 | 3.8 | 3,652 | 49% | $1,451 |
| 48201550902 | 3 | 4,104 | 80% | $1,153 |
| 48201551202 | 3 | 3,697 | 16% | $1,516 |
CDC SVI percentile: 74
Pop-weighted across 4 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.
Court-record eviction history in Greenwood Forest
Aggregated across 1 validated constituent tract. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 166Total filings (sum)
- 8.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 23.3%Peak year (2009)
- 5.44%Latest filed (2015)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1,382Total filings 2020-21
- 4.6Avg monthly observed
- 3.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.40×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston, TX).
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