Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Memorial Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201410201 · Harris, TX · pop 1,928 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 48201410201 covers part of the Memorial Heights area of Houston, TX, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,928. Average gross rent is $2,052, 51% above the Houston average.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43%
Stable renters 49%
Owners 8%
Tract context
Occupied units1,259
Renter share91.6%
SVI overall0.08
Poverty rate7.2%
Median income$97,844
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
6
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
25
th percentile
Low
Within state
35
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7593, -95.3907 · click any tract to drill in
Why Memorial Heights scores 3
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
7.2% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$2,052 rent vs county FMR
8.4
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 Memorial Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 22%Grade A
- 2%Grade B
- 0%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 227Total filings 2020-21
- 3.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 4.88×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Memorial Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Memorial Heights
This is renter territory: 92% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The voucher gap is 34.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Disability prevalence runs 18.1% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.7/10.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201410201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201410201?
Census tract 48201410201 in the Memorial Heights neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 48201410201?
Median gross rent is $2,052/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201410201?
7.2% of residents in tract 48201410201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,928.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201410201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 30th, household 1th, minority 58th, housing 20th.
Q5
Is tract 48201410201 considered part of Memorial Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201410201 fall within Memorial Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48201410201 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 4.88× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 48201410201 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201410201 scores 3/10, lower 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.
Q8
Was tract 48201410201 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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