Within neighborhood
17
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Mayfair Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201332800 · Harris, TX · pop 4,433 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201332800 in the Mayfair area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Adults with no health insurance runs 44.8% against 11.3% nationally.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,361
Renter share72.5%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate35.4%
Median income$40,847
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
91
th percentile
Very High
Within county
86
th percentile
High
Within state
92
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6898, -95.3077 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mayfair scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
35.4% poverty · this tract
8.9
Supply constraint
$886 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5
How Mayfair compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 75%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
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)
- 291Total filings over 7 yrs
- 4.49%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.9%Peak (2009)
- 43Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 22% over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 178Total filings 2020-21
- 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.80×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Mayfair. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mayfair
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Average gross rent is $886, 35% below the Houston average. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.9/10. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Disability prevalence runs 46.9% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 291 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2009, when 5.9% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Houston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201332800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201332800?
Census tract 48201332800 in the Mayfair neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 48201332800?
Median gross rent is $886/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201332800?
35.4% of residents in tract 48201332800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,433.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201332800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 83th, minority 93th, housing 99th.
Q5
Is tract 48201332800 considered part of Mayfair?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201332800 fall within Mayfair (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201332800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 291 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201332800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.49% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201332800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.80× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 48201332800 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201332800 scores 5.1/10, higher than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 48201332800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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