Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #48,083 of 84,120 nationally
Memorial Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston
Tract 48201510201 · Harris, TX · pop 2,331 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 48201510201 runs through the Memorial Heights neighborhood of Houston. With 2,331 residents, it scores 4.9/10 for landlords. That is riskier than about 34% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 32% of renter households, a high level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,073 a month against an average household income of $112,727 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 91% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 61%
Owners 10%
Tract context
Occupied units1,410
Renter share90.6%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate11.2%
Median income$112,727
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
26
th percentile
Low
Within county
28
th percentile
Low
Within state
44
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7644, -95.3880 · click any tract to drill in
Why Memorial Heights scores 3.6
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
11.2% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$2,073 rent vs county FMR
8.6
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: 10
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 32%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 20%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)
- 236Total filings 2020-21
- 3.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.97×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
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 8.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Houston eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Harris County average of 5.2 and in line with the Texas statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 20% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 2.97x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, above pre-pandemic levels.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201510201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201510201?
Census tract 48201510201 in the Memorial Heights neighborhood scores 3.6/10 (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 48201510201?
Median gross rent is $2,073/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201510201?
11.2% of residents in tract 48201510201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,331.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201510201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 1th, minority 49th, housing 23th.
Q5
Is tract 48201510201 considered part of Memorial Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201510201 fall within Memorial Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48201510201 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.97× 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 48201510201 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201510201 scores 3.6/10, higher than the parent city of Houston at 2.8/10. 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 48201510201 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 20% 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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