Highland Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201533200 · Harris, TX · pop 4,498 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Tract 48201533200 sits in the Highland Heights area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. 69% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Harris County average of 49.5%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8669, -95.4496 · 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.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%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)
- 802Total filings over 7 yrs
- 21.11%Avg annual filing rate
- 28.0%Peak (2009)
- 57Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 354Total filings 2020-21
- 4.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.78×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 Highland Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Highland Heights
Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 31.0% against 11.3% nationally.
Set annual rent against average income of $38,772 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Disability prevalence runs 45.5% against 31.5% nationally. At $1,090 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Houston commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 802 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2009 at 28.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 21.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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