Sunset Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Reston
Tract 51059482203 · Fairfax County, VA · pop 4,411 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 51059482203 covers the Sunset Hills neighborhood of Reston in Virginia. Home to 4,411 residents, it scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #47,021 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 31% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,718 a month while the average household earns $154,656 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Reston and the region
Centroid at 38.9596, -77.3624 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunset Hills scores 1.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunset Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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)
- 85Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.5%Peak (2013)
- 26Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunset Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.3%Housing insecurity
- 3.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.3%Food insecurity
- 3.4%SNAP enrollment
- 3.8%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 11.6%Frequent mental distress
- 20.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunset Hills
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Reston eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Fairfax County average of 5.4 and in line with the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 5.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 33rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Reston
Top eight tracts in Reston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.