Westover Eviction Risk: Lower , Chesapeake
Tract 51550020905 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 3,533 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Eviction risk in the Westover neighborhood of Chesapeake centers on tract 51550020905, which scores 4.7/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 3,533 residents. That is riskier than about 27% of US census tracts.
48% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,636 monthly, set against $71,515 in average yearly household income, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 53% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region
Centroid at 36.7730, -76.2660 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westover scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westover compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%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)
- 400Total filings over 6 yrs
- 13.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.6%Peak (2015)
- 55Filings 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.
- 15.4%Housing insecurity
- 9.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.3%Food insecurity
- 16.0%SNAP enrollment
- 10.5%Transit barriers
- 13.1%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 36.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westover
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 4.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. 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 above 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 62nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51550020905
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Highest-risk tracts in Chesapeake
Top eight tracts in Chesapeake ranked by composite eviction-risk score.