Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Washington Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201312400 · Harris, TX · pop 1,856 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 48201312400 sits in the Washington eviction laws Terrace area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 1,856 residents. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units897
Renter share60.4%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate49.9%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
98
th percentile
Very High
Within county
89
th percentile
High
Within state
92
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7299, -95.3610 · click any tract to drill in
Why Washington Terrace scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Houston
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Texas legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
49.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$642 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Houston
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Houston
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Houston
2.5
How Washington Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 17%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 5%Grade C
- 74%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 516Total filings over 7 yrs
- 9.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.2%Peak (2013)
- 63Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 381Total filings 2020-21
- 5.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.2Pre-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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Washington Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Washington Terrace
Average gross rent is $642, 53% below the Houston average. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 50%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Harris County average of 49.5%.
It sits 1.1 points above the Harris County average of 4.0. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 516 filings here across 7 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 12.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Houston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 9.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201312400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201312400?
Census tract 48201312400 in the Washington Terrace neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 48201312400?
Median gross rent is $642/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201312400?
49.9% of residents in tract 48201312400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,856.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201312400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 90th, minority 97th, housing 21th.
Q5
Is tract 48201312400 considered part of Washington Terrace?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201312400 fall within Washington Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201312400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 516 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201312400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.63% of renter households, peaking at 12.2% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201312400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.80× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Houston eviction risk, TX), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 48201312400 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201312400 scores 5.1/10, higher than the parent city of Houston at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Houston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 48201312400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 74% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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