South Lawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201313801 · Harris, TX · pop 1,446 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
48201313801 is a census tract in the South Lawn area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,446. 43% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6887, -95.3695 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Lawn scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow South Lawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 11%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 486Total filings 2020-21
- 6.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.64×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within South Lawn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in South Lawn
Annualized rent equals 55% of average household income of $19,821, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.7/10.
The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
At $906 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Houston commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Disability prevalence runs 44.9% against 31.5% nationally. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Adults with no health insurance runs 21.6% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.7/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
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