Beechmont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newport News
Tract 51700032227 · Newport News city, VA · pop 4,942 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
The Beechmont area of Newport News is where census tract 51700032227 sits, home to 4,942 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.5/10. That is riskier than about 55% of US census tracts.
About 29% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,253 a month while the average household earns $62,119 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 62% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newport News and the region
Centroid at 37.1505, -76.5602 · click any tract to drill in
Why Beechmont scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Beechmont compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 79%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Beechmont. 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.
- 17.3%Housing insecurity
- 11.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.1%Food insecurity
- 19.1%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 33.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Beechmont
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 5.1/10. 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 in line with the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 17.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 58th 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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