Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #66,742 of 84,120 nationally

Raleigh Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Chesapeake

Tract 51550020500 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 2,316 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 51550020500 covers the Raleigh Heights neighborhood of Chesapeake, home to 2,316 residents. For landlords it grades 4.3/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than roughly 17% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 63% of renter households, a severe level, and 49% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,151 monthly, set against $69,688 in average yearly household income, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.

Risk score
2.5
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 13% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units870
Renter share35.6%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate6.0%
Median income$69,688

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Raleigh Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#23 of 61 tracts In Chesapeake
Elevated
Within county
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#23 of 61 tracts In Chesapeake city
Elevated
Within state
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#1,210 of 2,186 tracts In Virginia
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region

Centroid at 36.7909, -76.2921 · click any tract to drill in

Why Raleigh Heights scores 2.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
6.0% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$1,151 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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 Raleigh Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Raleigh Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 2.52.5This tracttract 020500Chesapeake: 3.63.6Chesapeakeparent cityCounty: 2.32.3Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.03.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 75

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 261Total filings over 6 yrs
  • 16.57%Avg annual filing rate
  • 14.0%Peak (2016)
  • 50Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2011 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 515500205002011: 41 filings (16.60/100 renter HHs)2012: 31 filings (12.55/100 renter HHs)2013: 46 filings (18.62/100 renter HHs)2014: 46 filings (18.62/100 renter HHs)2015: 47 filings (19.03/100 renter HHs)2016: 50 filings (14.01/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 22% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Raleigh Heights

The score leans hardest on eviction process difficulty at 3.5/10. 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 Chesapeake eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Chesapeake City County average of 4.3 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 75th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 51550020500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51550020500?

Census tract 51550020500 in the Raleigh Heights neighborhood scores 2.5/10 (Lower 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 51550020500?

Median gross rent is $1,151/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 51550020500?

6.0% of residents in tract 51550020500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,316.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 51550020500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 75th, minority 83th, housing 33th.
Q5

Is tract 51550020500 considered part of Raleigh Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51550020500 fall within Raleigh Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51550020500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 261 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 51550020500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 16.57% of renter households, peaking at 14.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 51550020500 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.3% 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. 12.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 51550020500 compare to Chesapeake overall?

Tract 51550020500 scores 2.5/10, lower than the parent city of Chesapeake at 3.6/10. 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 51550020500 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. 0% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Chesapeake

Top eight tracts in Chesapeake ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Related