Bernard Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newport News
Tract 51700032128 · Newport News city, VA · pop 4,277 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 51700032128 sits in the Bernard Village area of Newport News eviction risk, VA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.9/10. Population here is 4,277. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newport News and the region
Centroid at 37.0916, -76.4746 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bernard Village scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bernard Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 65%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 2,496Total filings over 5 yrs
- 41.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 54.5%Peak (2013)
- 370Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bernard Village. 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.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 12.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.5%Food insecurity
- 19.7%SNAP enrollment
- 12.0%Transit barriers
- 13.5%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bernard Village
This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against Newport News City at 49.3%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,496 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Against the Newport News City average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Running cool, supply constraint reads 3/10. Filings peaked in 2013 at 54.5% of renter households.
In a typical year about 41.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most 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.
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