Second Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $962 a month, rents sit 29% under what the rest of Houston commands. On the softer side is supply constraint, at 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Court records carry 382 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts.

Running cool is housing-court posture, at 2.5/10. Cost burden runs 36% against 32.1% citywide, putting Second Ward 3.9% over its own city.

The worst year on record was 2014, when filings touched 5.4% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 4.0% in 2015 against a 5.4% peak.

Among the 397 mapped neighborhoods of Houston, it ranks #46 by risk, the upper third. Social vulnerability runs high at 8.9/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input. Its 3 tracts score within 0.4 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $49,522.

With little internal variation, 5/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.