Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. At $1,730 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Houston commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Against Harris County at 49.5%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 22.9% against 11.3% nationally.

It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Court records carry 567 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The voucher gap is 13.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 21.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 12.3% of renter households face a filing.

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.