Stafford Courthouse Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 51179010105 · Stafford County, VA · pop 8,933 · 16% of tract blocks fall in Stafford Courthouse
Stafford Courthouse in Stafford County anchors census tract 51179010105, which lands at 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 59th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 42% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 8% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,209 a month while the average household earns $155,060 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. Renters make up 12% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Stafford Courthouse and the region
Centroid at 38.4207, -77.3747 · click any tract to drill in
Why Stafford Courthouse scores 1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Stafford Courthouse compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 18%Socioeconomic
- 23%Household composition
- 70%Racial/ethnic minority
- 0%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)
- 293Total filings over 2 yrs
- 38.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 37.2%Peak (2016)
- 152Filings 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.
- 10.3%Housing insecurity
- 6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.6%Food insecurity
- 7.5%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 7.8%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 25.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Stafford Courthouse
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.3/10. 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 Stafford Courthouse, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Stafford County average of 5.4 and in line with the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 5th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51179010105
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Highest-risk tracts in Stafford Courthouse
Top eight tracts in Stafford Courthouse ranked by composite eviction-risk score.