Mahatma Gandhi District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201421402 · Harris, TX · pop 3,864 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 48201421402 sits in the Mahatma Gandhi District area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7146, -95.4869 · 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: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 69%Household composition
- 97%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 383Total filings over 7 yrs
- 7.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.9%Peak (2014)
- 31Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 335Total filings 2020-21
- 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.97×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 Mahatma Gandhi District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Mahatma Gandhi District
Adults with no health insurance runs 52.7% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 46%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
This is renter territory: 98% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $880 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Houston commands. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 50.1% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Harris County average of 49.5%. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
Court records carry 383 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 5.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 7.7% of renter households face a filing.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
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