Within parent city
81
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201221400 · Harris, TX · pop 6,414
Census tract 48201221400 covers part of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 48%. 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 47%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,809
Renter share59.5%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate36.5%
Median income$33,441
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
95
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 29.8534, -95.3916 · 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
36.5% poverty · this tract
9.1
Supply constraint
$1,042 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%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)
- 356Total filings over 7 yrs
- 4.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.1%Peak (2015)
- 70Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 79% over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1,046Total filings 2020-21
- 13.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.91×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. 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%, 79% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 47.0% against 11.3% nationally. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.1/10.
The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $33,441 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Disability prevalence runs 48.6% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Average gross rent is $1,042, 23% below the Houston average. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 356 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 6.1% of renter households were served.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201221400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201221400?
Census tract 48201221400 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 48201221400?
Median gross rent is $1,042/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 79% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201221400?
36.5% of residents in tract 48201221400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,414.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201221400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 93th, minority 94th, housing 92th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201221400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 356 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201221400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.57% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 48201221400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.91× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 48201221400 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201221400 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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