Westmoreland Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. 71% 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.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.3/10.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $98,147, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Harris County average of 4.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,362, 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.