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

Riverside Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201312603 · Harris, TX · pop 3,642 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 48201312603 sits in the Riverside Terrace area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. The severe-burden share is 37%, 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 28% Stable renters 37% Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units2,197
Renter share65.2%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate37.0%
Median income$75,635

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Riverside Terrace
Elevated
Within parent city
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#126 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#121 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
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 29.7269, -95.3780 · click any tract to drill in

Why Riverside 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
37.0% poverty · this tract
9.2
Supply constraint
$1,055 rent vs county FMR
1.9
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 Riverside Terrace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Riverside Terrace risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 3126033.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 79

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

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.

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)

  • 338Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.37×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 Riverside Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Riverside Terrace

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.2/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $1,055 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Houston commands. Cost burden runs 43% here against 49.5% across Harris County.

It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. 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. 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 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $75,635, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 48201312603

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201312603?

Census tract 48201312603 in the Riverside 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 average rent in tract 48201312603?

Median gross rent is $1,055/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201312603?

37.0% of residents in tract 48201312603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,642.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201312603?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 9th, minority 79th, housing 95th.
Q5

Is tract 48201312603 considered part of Riverside Terrace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201312603 fall within Riverside Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201312603 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.37× 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 48201312603 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201312603 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 48201312603 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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