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Northline Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201221601 · Harris, TX · pop 3,277 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201221601 in the Northline Terrace area of Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,277 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 4% Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units877
Renter share21.6%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate42.4%
Median income$60,380

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Northline Terrace
Moderate
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#209 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#56 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
Very High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.8927, -95.4069 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northline Terrace scores 5.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
42.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Northline Terrace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northline Terrace risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 2216013.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 72

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 31Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.54×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Northline Terrace

Against Harris County at 49.5%, 80% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 51.3% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.6% against 31.5% nationally.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 48201221601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201221601?

Census tract 48201221601 in the Northline Terrace 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 poverty rate in tract 48201221601?

42.4% of residents in tract 48201221601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,277.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201221601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 60th, minority 90th, housing 30th.
Q4

Is tract 48201221601 considered part of Northline Terrace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201221601 fall within Northline Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 48201221601 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.54× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q6

How does tract 48201221601 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201221601 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.
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