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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Spring Branch East Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

Tract 48201520301 · Harris, TX · pop 2,208 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 48201520301 sits in the Spring Branch East area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 47% Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units947
Renter share74.8%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate28.2%
Median income$62,917

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Spring Branch East
Very High
Within parent city
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#231 of 952 tracts In Houston
High
Within county
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#267 of 1,115 tracts In Harris
High
Within state
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#565 of 6,884 tracts In Texas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Houston and the region

Centroid at 29.7987, -95.4719 · click any tract to drill in

Why Spring Branch East scores 5.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
28.2% poverty · this tract
7.0
Supply constraint
$1,236 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Spring Branch East compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Spring Branch East risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 5203013.7Houstonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 70

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 81Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.46×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Spring Branch East. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Spring Branch East

Against Harris County at 49.5%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 26.9% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. At $1,236 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Houston commands. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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 48201520301

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201520301?

Census tract 48201520301 in the Spring Branch East neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 48201520301?

Median gross rent is $1,236/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 48201520301?

28.2% of residents in tract 48201520301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,208.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 48201520301?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 82th, household 39th, minority 87th, housing 45th.
Q5

Is tract 48201520301 considered part of Spring Branch East?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201520301 fall within Spring Branch East (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 48201520301 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.46× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 48201520301 compare to Houston overall?

Tract 48201520301 scores 5.1/10, 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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