Virginia Highlands Eviction Risk: Elevated , Arlington

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Arlington County average of 5.9.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against Arlington County at 38.9%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.