Within neighborhood
83
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Westbury Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201420500 · Harris, TX · pop 3,529 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 48201420500 sits in the Westbury area of Houston eviction risk, TX, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. Population here is 3,529. Adults with no health insurance runs 35.7% against 11.3% nationally.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37%
Stable renters 56%
Owners 7%
Tract context
Occupied units1,272
Renter share92.8%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate18.5%
Median income$49,547
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.6486, -95.4713 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westbury scores 4.8
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
18.5% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,110 rent vs county FMR
2.3
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 Westbury compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
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)
- 723Total filings over 7 yrs
- 9.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.0%Peak (2014)
- 106Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 38% over the past 7 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 501Total filings 2020-21
- 6.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.72×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 Westbury. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Westbury
This is renter territory: 93% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Cost burden runs 40% here against 49.5% across Harris County. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Average gross rent is $1,110, 18% below the Houston average. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 723 filings here across 7 tracked years. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2014 at 15.0% of renter households.
In a typical year about 9.9% of renter households face a filing.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 48201420500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 48201420500?
Census tract 48201420500 in the Westbury neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 48201420500?
Median gross rent is $1,110/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 48201420500?
18.5% of residents in tract 48201420500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,529.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 48201420500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 68th, minority 95th, housing 92th.
Q5
Is tract 48201420500 considered part of Westbury?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 48201420500 fall within Westbury (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 48201420500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 723 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 48201420500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.91% of renter households, peaking at 15.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 48201420500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× 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 48201420500 compare to Houston overall?
Tract 48201420500 scores 4.8/10, 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.
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