Richmond Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Madison County average of 3.9 closely. Average gross rent is $947, close to the Richmond average. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $38,212.

48% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.