Nicholas Manor Eviction Risk: Moderate , Blacksburg

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.4/10. At $919 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Blacksburg commands.

Against Montgomery County at 40.4%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Food insecurity runs 8.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 7.0% against 14.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 20% 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 8% of average household income of $138,462, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Montgomery County average of 5.1 closely.

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