The Heritage Eviction Risk: Lower , Houston

Against Harris County at 49.5%, 75% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $2,032, 49% above the Houston average. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The voucher gap is 32.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 15% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $142,549, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

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.