Christophers Shores Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newport News

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.8/10. SNAP participation runs 35.3% against 15.2% nationally. Set annual rent against average income of $34,325 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.3 points above the Newport News City average of 4.1. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Newport News City average of 49.3%.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. At $1,118 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Newport News commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,681 filings here across 5 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 32.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Norfolk. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 28.3% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.