THE 10 WORST Neighborhoods In Houston For 2020

Houston’s homicide rate is on the rise, so you should take a look at RoadSnacks’ list of the worst neighborhoods in Houston for 2020 so that you don’t become a statistic.

But first, this is how we created our list. In order to determine Houston’s worst neighborhoods, we had to give each neighborhood an actual concrete score: we’ll call this a neighborhood’s overall ‘Snackability’. To get this score, we looked at the latest census data on income levels, unemployment rates, crime, and home prices for 26 Houston neighborhoods with over 6,000 residents.

As you can imagine, Houston’s worst neighborhoods did not disappoint. Folks, the kind of neighborhoods we’re talking about have carjackings happening in broad daylight, daily robberies, and a bunch of nothing good happens after dark crimes. There are currently 3,500 police officers that patrol Houston, but the city houses 2.3 million residents. Law enforcement is doing their best to clean up the city’s worst neighborhoods, but they can’t be everywhere. Sadly, Houston is one of the only major U.S. cities where crime is on the rise.

We’re not saying that the Space City is all bad. Matter of fact, there’s actually a lot of safe fun to be had in a lot of pretty awesome neighborhoods. For instance, Montrose really brings their A-game with their Montrose Morning Market every Sunday and you definitely shouldn’t miss Greater Height’s Crawfish Festival. But, we’re here to talk about Houston’s worst.

So, want to know what Houston neighborhoods you should avoid if you value your life? Keep reading.

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So, what’s the worst neighborhood in Houston for 2020? That would be Far North.

To see what other Houston neighborhoods made this list, take a look below; and if you can’t find what you’re looking for there, head to the bottom.

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How we determined the worst Houston hoods in 2020

To figure out how bad a place is to live in, we only needed to know what kinds of things people like and then decide what places have the least amount of those things. We threw the following criteria into this analysis in order to get the best, most complete results possible. We used this set of criteria for each neighborhood in Houston:

• High unemployment (Less jobs)
• Low median income (Less pay)
• Low population density (No things to do)
• Low home values (No one’s willing to pay to live here)
• High crime (Estimated)

Then, we ranked each neighborhood in Houston, Texas for each of these criteria from worst to best.

Next, we averaged the individual rankings for each criteria into a “Worst Score”.

The neighborhood with the lowest “Worst Score” ranks as the worst neighborhood of Houston.

Read on below to learn more about these terrible places around Houston to live. Or skip to the end to see the list of all 26 neighborhoods ranked from worst to best.

This list is a scientific analysis based on real data and is completely unbiased. Hold on to your pants.

The ‘hoods around Houston that are really hoods

Well there you have it — the worst of the neighborhoods in Houston with Far North landing at the bottom of the pack.

As we mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in Houston aren’t all bad. West University takes the cake as the best place to live in Houston.

We ranked the neighborhoods from worst to best in the chart below.

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