Turtle Lake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201551501 · Harris, TX · pop 3,296 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 48201551501 sits in the Turtle Lake area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Population here is 3,296. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.9461, -95.5589 · click any tract to drill in
Why Turtle Lake scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Turtle Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%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)
- 694Total filings 2020-21
- 9.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.99×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
What drives eviction risk in Turtle Lake
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Adults with no health insurance runs 28.6% against 11.3% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, 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 Harris County at 49.5%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0.
Average gross rent is $1,556, 14% above the Houston average. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
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 48201551501
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