Carolina Chase Eviction Risk: Lower , Gainesville
Tract 51153901508 · Prince William County, VA · pop 5,770 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of $1/10, tract 51153901508 in the Carolina Chase neighborhood of Gainesville ranks in the Elevated tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 5,770 residents. It lands near the 73rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
59% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,113 a month while the average household earns $137,500 a year, roughly 18% of income at the averages. About 28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Gainesville and the region
Centroid at 38.8006, -77.6533 · click any tract to drill in
Why Carolina Chase scores 1.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Carolina Chase compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 47
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 70%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%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)
- 123Total filings over 1 yrs
- 26.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.4%Peak (2016)
- 123Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.3%Housing insecurity
- 7.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.2%Food insecurity
- 9.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 8.5%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 26.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Carolina Chase
What moves this score most is rent-control risk at 6.8/10. 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 Gainesville, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Prince William County average of 5.7 and above the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Asian and ranks around the 47th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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