Richneck Eviction Risk: Lower , Newport News

Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 49.3% across Newport News City. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,755 filings here across 5 tracked years.

It sits 0.7 points below the Newport News City average of 4.1. Average gross rent is $1,180, 12% below the Newport News average. The worst year on record was 2013, when 68.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 49.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 0.8 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.