Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Norfolk Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chesapeake
Tract 51550020003 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 5,743 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 51550020003 sits in the Norfolk eviction risk Highlands area of Chesapeake eviction risk, VA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. Cost burden runs 66% here against 49.2% across Chesapeake City.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units2,234
Renter share36.8%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate14.9%
Median income$71,136
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
93
th percentile
Very High
Within county
87
th percentile
High
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region
Centroid at 36.8137, -76.2325 · click any tract to drill in
Why Norfolk Highlands scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Chesapeake
3.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
Virginia legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
14.9% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,277 rent vs county FMR
2.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chesapeake
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chesapeake
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chesapeake
3.5
How Norfolk Highlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 55%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 76%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
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)
- 758Total filings over 6 yrs
- 15.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.2%Peak (2011)
- 137Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 6 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.8%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.6%Food insecurity
- 17.1%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 34.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Norfolk Highlands
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.5/10.
It sits 1.2 points above the Chesapeake City average of 3.6. Average gross rent is $1,277, 19% below the Chesapeake average.
The filing record is not thin: 758 evictions over 6 years of observation. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 18.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Norfolk. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 15.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 51550020003
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51550020003?
Census tract 51550020003 in the Norfolk Highlands neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 51550020003?
Median gross rent is $1,277/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 66% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 51550020003?
14.9% of residents in tract 51550020003 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,743.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 51550020003?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 55th, household 94th, minority 64th, housing 35th.
Q5
Is tract 51550020003 considered part of Norfolk Highlands?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51550020003 fall within Norfolk Highlands (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51550020003?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 758 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 51550020003 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.10% of renter households, peaking at 18.2% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 51550020003 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.8% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 10.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 51550020003 compare to Chesapeake overall?
Tract 51550020003 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Chesapeake at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chesapeake eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 51550020003 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 76% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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