Houston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 48201550405 · Harris, TX · pop 8,482 · 28% of tract blocks fall in Houston
Tract 48201550405 sits in Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 8,482 residents. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.9919, -95.4698 · 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: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%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)
- 1,626Total filings 2020-21
- 21.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 11.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.77×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $49,585 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 26.3% against 11.3% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters.
Average gross rent is $1,336, 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.
About tract 48201550405
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