Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. At $1,823 a month, rents run 34% over what the rest of Houston commands. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10. The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 0.7 points above the Fort Bend County average of 3.8.

That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $85,066. 55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.