Yacht Haven Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mount Vernon

At $3,501 a month, rents run 116% over what the rest of Mount Vernon commands. The voucher gap is 51.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.3/10.

29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Fairfax County average of 41.0%. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. SNAP participation runs 4.0% against 15.2% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 42 evictions over 4 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2012 at 11.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 8.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 7% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.