Whispering Oaks Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201431102 · Harris, TX · pop 4,309 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 48201431102 covers part of the Whispering Oaks area of Houston, TX, and scores 4.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,309. 66% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Harris County average of 49.5%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7415, -95.5283 · click any tract to drill in
Why Whispering Oaks scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Whispering Oaks compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 557Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.3%Peak (2010)
- 86Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1,121Total filings 2020-21
- 14.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.59×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
Within Whispering Oaks. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Whispering Oaks
Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 80% 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.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $60,174 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Average gross rent is $1,623, 19% above the Houston average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 557 filings here across 7 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 6.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Harris County average of 4.0 closely.
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 48201431102
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