Sweet Briar Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dumbarton

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $64,311 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.6/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Henrico County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Housing insecurity runs 23.0% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 152 filings here across 2 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $1,796, 11% above the Laurel average. Filings peaked in 2016 at 25.4% of renter households.

In a typical year about 22.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.