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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Pleasantville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201211501 · Harris, TX · pop 3,034 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Tract 48201211501 sits in the Pleasantville area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Population here is 3,034. The severe-burden share is 35%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 28% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units989
Renter share46.8%
SVI overall0.94
Poverty rate34.2%
Median income$51,979

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Pleasantville
Very High
Within parent city
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#135 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#34 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 29.7639, -95.2930 · click any tract to drill in

Why Pleasantville 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
34.2% poverty · this tract
8.6
Supply constraint
$883 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 Pleasantville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Pleasantville risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 2115013.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 94

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

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.

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)

  • 63Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.40×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Pleasantville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Pleasantville

Adults with no health insurance runs 46.6% against 11.3% nationally. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

At $883 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Houston commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.6/10.

41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Harris County average of 49.5%. Disability prevalence runs 44.9% against 31.5% nationally.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. 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. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, 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. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $51,979.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48201211501

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201211501?

Census tract 48201211501 in the Pleasantville 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 48201211501?

Median gross rent is $883/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201211501?

34.2% of residents in tract 48201211501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,034.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201211501?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 82th, minority 94th, housing 71th.
Q5

Is tract 48201211501 considered part of Pleasantville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201211501 fall within Pleasantville (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201211501 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.40× 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 48201211501 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201211501 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.
Q8

Was tract 48201211501 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Houston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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