Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $1,834, 35% above the Houston average. Against Fort Bend County at 42.8%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Adults with no health insurance runs 29.2% against 11.3% nationally. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $62,454, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

Against the Fort Bend County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The voucher gap is 20.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 851 filings here across 14 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 17.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 13.0% of renter households face a filing.

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.