Dunedin Eviction Risk: Lower , Chesapeake
Tract 51550021602 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 6,570 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 51550021602 covers the Dunedin neighborhood of Chesapeake, home to 6,570 residents. For landlords it grades 4.1/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than about 13% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 40% of renter households, a severe level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,281 monthly, set against $89,506 in average yearly household income, roughly 17% of income at the averages. Renters make up 45% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region
Centroid at 36.8564, -76.4192 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dunedin scores 2.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Dunedin compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 53
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 43%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)
- 1,831Total filings over 6 yrs
- 27.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 32.4%Peak (2011)
- 230Filings 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.
- 13.9%Housing insecurity
- 9.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.4%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.7%Transit barriers
- 7.5%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 29.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Dunedin
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 safer side for landlords.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 53rd 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,831 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 27.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 32.4% of renter households in 2011.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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