Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Chesapeake
Tract 51550021503 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 3,929 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 51550021503 covers Forest Hills in Chesapeake in Virginia. Home to 3,929 residents, it scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #65,962 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
68% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 68% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $183,179 a year. Renters make up 3% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region
Centroid at 36.8032, -76.4162 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Hills scores 1.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Forest Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 6
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 2%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.7%Food insecurity
- 7.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.8%Transit barriers
- 6.3%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 26.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Forest Hills
What moves this score most is supply constraint at $1/10. 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 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 8.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 6th 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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