Preston Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harrisonburg
Tract 51660000101 · Harrisonburg city, VA · pop 4,514 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 51660000101 sits in Preston Heights in Harrisonburg eviction risk, Virginia eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. On the national scale it ranks #58,688 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 35% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 15% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,054 monthly, set against $59,012 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 54% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisonburg and the region
Centroid at 38.4543, -78.8557 · click any tract to drill in
Why Preston Heights scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Preston Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Preston Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 19.0%Housing insecurity
- 12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.1%Food insecurity
- 21.0%SNAP enrollment
- 12.7%Transit barriers
- 17.2%No health insurance
- 19.9%Frequent mental distress
- 35.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Preston Heights
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 5.5/10. 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 Harrisonburg 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 Harrisonburg City County average of 5.0 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 19.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 12.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 82nd 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.
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