Lamar Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201421101 · Harris, TX · pop 2,644 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 48201421101 covers part of the Lamar Terrace area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,644. 93% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7223, -95.4701 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lamar Terrace scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lamar Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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)
- 564Total filings over 7 yrs
- 5.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.9%Peak (2015)
- 156Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 449Total filings 2020-21
- 5.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 8.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.69×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lamar Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Lamar Terrace
Against Harris County at 49.5%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 24.9% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Average gross rent is $1,151, 15% below the Houston average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 564 filings here across 7 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 10.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 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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