Pulaski Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 51155210201 · Pulaski County, VA · pop 4,232 · 99% of tract blocks fall in Pulaski
With a score of 5.5/10, tract 51155210201 in Pulaski, VA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,232 residents. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Pulaski County average of 30.1%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pulaski and the region
Centroid at 37.0587, -80.7544 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pulaski scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pulaski compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%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)
- 170Total filings over 2 yrs
- 11.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.5%Peak (2014)
- 73Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 14.0%Housing insecurity
- 10.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.6%Food insecurity
- 19.7%SNAP enrollment
- 10.6%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 20.7%Frequent mental distress
- 40.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Pulaski
36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.5 points above the Pulaski County average of 4.0.
On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.3/10. Court records carry 170 eviction filings across 2 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 11.5% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 11.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Pulaski
Top eight tracts in Pulaski ranked by composite eviction-risk score.