Highland Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201530701 · Harris, TX · pop 1,466 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
48201530701 is a census tract in the Highland Heights area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,466 residents. 39% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8631, -95.4088 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Heights scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Highland Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 91%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 291Total filings 2020-21
- 3.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.42×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Highland Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Highland Heights
Annualized rent equals 67% of average household income of $19,840, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 39.5% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Disability prevalence runs 52.2% against 31.5% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
At $1,114 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Houston commands. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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