Robinson Eviction Risk: Lower , Newport News
Tract 51700031603 · Newport News city, VA · pop 4,959 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
For landlords sizing up the Robinson area of Newport News, census tract 51700031603 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 50% of renter households, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,730 a month against an average household income of $95,267 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 24% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newport News and the region
Centroid at 37.0689, -76.4533 · click any tract to drill in
Why Robinson scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Robinson compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 43%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Robinson. 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.
- 13.1%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.8%Food insecurity
- 10.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 8.0%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Robinson
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 5.2/10. 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 Newport News 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 Newport News City County average of 5.8 and above the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 13.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 46th 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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