Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate

roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Fort Bend County average of 42.8%. Average gross rent is $1,997, 47% above the Houston average. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The voucher gap is 30.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, supply constraint reads 8.1/10.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Fort Bend County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 21% 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. Social vulnerability reads 5.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $129,271.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.