Mahatma Gandhi District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

95% 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. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $34,708, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 46.3% against 31.5% nationally.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Average gross rent is $1,035, 24% below the Houston average.

It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Harris County average of 49.5%.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.