Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201550304 · Harris, TX · pop 1,909 · 60% of tract blocks fall in Houston
Census tract 48201550304 covers part of Houston, TX, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,909 residents. 100% 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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 30.0152, -95.4353 · 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: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%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)
- 1,049Total filings 2020-21
- 13.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 12.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.07×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near 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
Set annual rent against average income of $34,306 and the ratio lands at 48%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.3/10.
The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.1% against 11.3% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10. 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 52% of renters.
Average gross rent is $1,383, close to the Houston average.
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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