Mahatma Gandhi District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201421204 · Harris, TX · pop 3,857 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 48201421204 covers part of the Mahatma Gandhi District area of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Adults with no health insurance runs 43.6% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7215, -95.4895 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mahatma Gandhi District scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mahatma Gandhi District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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)
- 212Total filings 2020-21
- 2.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.24×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 Mahatma Gandhi District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Mahatma Gandhi District
This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. At $927 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Houston commands.
The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Harris County average of 49.5%. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Disability prevalence runs 44.1% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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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