Preston Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harrisonburg
Tract 51660000204 · Harrisonburg city, VA · pop 4,935 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 51660000204 belongs to the Preston Heights area of Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is home to 4,935 residents and scores $1/10, a moderate reading for landlords. It lands near the 37th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
35% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,259 a month against an average household income of $68,998 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 59% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisonburg and the region
Centroid at 38.4429, -78.8617 · click any tract to drill in
Why Preston Heights scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Preston Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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.
- 14.3%Housing insecurity
- 9.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.0%Food insecurity
- 16.1%SNAP enrollment
- 10.8%Transit barriers
- 13.9%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 34.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Preston Heights
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 6.5/10. 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 in line with the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 80th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 14.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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