Independence Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. The 5 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 3 to 5.1, a 2.1-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

On the softer side is supply constraint, at 2/10. 17% 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. At $1,066 a month, rents sit 22% under what the rest of Houston commands.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Court records carry 656 eviction filings across its 3 observed tracts.

Running cool is housing-court posture, at 2.5/10. The worst year on record was 2013, when filings touched 11.1% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 4.5% in 2015, is well off that peak. That places it #108 of 397 neighborhoods in Houston. For a like-for-like read, Hidden Valley and Manchester score within a fraction of it.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.1 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.