Within neighborhood
33
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Southmore Plaza Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201320500 · Harris, TX · pop 4,426 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Tract 48201320500 sits in the Southmore Plaza area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4/10. Cost burden runs 12% here against 49.5% across Harris County.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 84%
Tract context
Occupied units1,188
Renter share15.8%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate15.1%
Median income$68,433
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6992, -95.2441 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southmore Plaza scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
15.1% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$1,670 rent vs county FMR
5.9
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 Southmore Plaza compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 26%Housing & transportation
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 76Total filings over 7 yrs
- 3.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2011)
- 9Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 29% over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 48Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.84×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Southmore Plaza. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Southmore Plaza
Adults with no health insurance runs 40.2% against 11.3% nationally. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. At $1,670 a month, rents run 23% over what the rest of Houston commands.
The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The filing record is not thin: 76 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2011, when 5.2% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.8/10.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201320500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201320500?
Census tract 48201320500 in the Southmore Plaza neighborhood scores 4/10 (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 48201320500?
Median gross rent is $1,670/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 12% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201320500?
15.1% of residents in tract 48201320500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,426.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201320500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 88th, minority 93th, housing 26th.
Q5
Is tract 48201320500 considered part of Southmore Plaza?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201320500 fall within Southmore Plaza (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201320500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 76 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201320500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.76% of renter households, peaking at 5.2% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201320500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.84× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 48201320500 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201320500 scores 4/10, 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.
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