Within parent city
79
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201220900 · Harris, TX · pop 1,670
Tract 48201220900 sits in Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Severe burden reaches 62%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 46%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units682
Renter share67.0%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate39.8%
Median income$22,412
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
92
th percentile
Very High
National
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8488, -95.3376 · click any tract to drill in
Why Houston scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
39.8% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$848 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Houston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%Housing & transportation
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 186Total filings over 7 yrs
- 13.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 30.5%Peak (2015)
- 57Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 375% over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 140Total filings 2020-21
- 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.64×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Houston
Against Harris County at 49.5%, 69% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 39.3% against 11.3% nationally. Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $22,412, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
At $848 a month, rents run 38% under what the rest of Houston commands. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Disability prevalence runs 44.7% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
The filing record is not thin: 186 evictions over 7 years of observation.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201220900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201220900?
Census tract 48201220900 in Houston 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 48201220900?
Median gross rent is $848/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201220900?
39.8% of residents in tract 48201220900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,670.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201220900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 97th, minority 90th, housing 84th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201220900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 186 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201220900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.98% of renter households, peaking at 30.5% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48201220900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.64× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 48201220900 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201220900 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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