Second Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

At $888 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Houston commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Disability prevalence runs 44.4% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.

45% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Harris County average of 49.5%. 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.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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