Melrose Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201221800 · Harris, TX · pop 4,597 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
48201221800 is a census tract in the Melrose Park area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,597 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8825, -95.3611 · click any tract to drill in
Why Melrose Park scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Melrose Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%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)
- 154Total filings over 7 yrs
- 5.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.5%Peak (2010)
- 11Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 113Total filings 2020-21
- 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.50×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 Melrose Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Melrose Park
Adults with no health insurance runs 46.8% against 11.3% nationally. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
At $1,043 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Houston commands. Disability prevalence runs 43.9% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 154 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2010 at 11.5% of renter households.
In a typical year about 5.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10.
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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