Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 86% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $42,523, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

Against Harris County at 49.5%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Adults with no health insurance runs 22.6% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,373 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $1,177, 14% below the Houston average. The worst year on record was 2009, when 16.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 12.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.