Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201541603 · Harris, TX · pop 7,808 · 22% of tract blocks fall in Houston
Tract 48201541603 sits in Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. 34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.8430, -95.6545 · 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: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 198Total filings 2020-21
- 2.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.80×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
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Houston
Adults with no health insurance runs 33.2% against 11.3% nationally. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
At $1,212 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Houston commands. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 51% of renters.
Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $63,548. 27% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 48201541603
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