Royal Crest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201533000 · Harris, TX · pop 2,450 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
48201533000 is a census tract in the Royal Crest area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,450 residents. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8895, -95.4617 · click any tract to drill in
Why Royal Crest scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Royal Crest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%Housing & transportation
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 415Total filings over 7 yrs
- 10.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.0%Peak (2014)
- 106Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 539Total filings 2020-21
- 7.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.17×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Royal Crest. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Royal Crest
Set annual rent against average income of $31,892 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Harris County average of 49.5%.
Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Adults with no health insurance runs 27.5% against 11.3% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.5% against 31.5% nationally.
It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. At $1,117 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Houston commands. Court records carry 415 eviction filings across 7 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 15.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 10.0% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 48201533000
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