Mahatma Gandhi District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201432803 · Harris, TX · pop 2,743 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201432803 in the Mahatma Gandhi District area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,743 residents. Adults with no health insurance runs 41.6% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7153, -95.5169 · 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: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 92%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 252Total filings 2020-21
- 3.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.36×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 Mahatma Gandhi District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Mahatma Gandhi District
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
At $1,002 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Houston commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 43.5% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, 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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