Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201231200 · Harris, TX · pop 6,230 · 68% of tract blocks fall in Houston
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 48201231200 in Houston, TX reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,230. The severe-burden share is 43%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8751, -95.2474 · click any tract to drill in
Why Houston scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Houston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
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)
- 985Total filings over 7 yrs
- 12.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.0%Peak (2014)
- 145Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 798Total filings 2020-21
- 10.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 11.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.90×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Houston
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 49.5% across Harris County. Set annual rent against average income of $35,199 and the ratio lands at 44%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.9% against 11.3% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 44.1% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 985 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 16.0% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 12.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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.
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