Raleigh Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Chesapeake
Tract 51550020500 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 2,316 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
51550020500 is a census tract in the Raleigh Heights area of Chesapeake, VA. It scores 3.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,316 residents. 49% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region
Centroid at 36.7909, -76.2921 · click any tract to drill in
Why Raleigh Heights scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Raleigh Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%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.
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)
- 261Total filings over 6 yrs
- 16.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.0%Peak (2016)
- 50Filings 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.
- 19.3%Housing insecurity
- 12.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.6%Food insecurity
- 18.0%SNAP enrollment
- 11.8%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 30.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Raleigh Heights
Cost burden runs 63% here against 49.2% across Chesapeake City. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10. At $1,151 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Chesapeake commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.
The filing record is not thin: 261 evictions over 6 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 14.0% 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 16.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Chesapeake City average of 3.6 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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