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Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally

Meadowbrook Eviction Risk: Moderate , Norfolk

Tract 51710000901 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 6,560 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Census tract 51710000901 covers part of the Meadowbrook area of Norfolk, VA, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,560 residents. The severe-burden share is 36%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 61% Stable renters 37% Owners 2%
Tract context
Occupied units1,538
Renter share98.1%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate18.5%
Median income$57,904

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Meadowbrook
Very High
Within parent city
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 80 tracts In Norfolk
Elevated
Within county
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 80 tracts In Norfolk city
Elevated
Within state
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#698 of 2,186 tracts In Virginia
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Norfolk and the region

Centroid at 36.9250, -76.2994 · click any tract to drill in

Why Meadowbrook scores 4.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Norfolk
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Virginia legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
18.5% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,854 rent vs county FMR
5.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Norfolk
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Norfolk
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Norfolk
5.0

How Meadowbrook compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Meadowbrook risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.6This tracttract 0009014.1Norfolkparent city4.1Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 41

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 37Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 1.87%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.4%Peak (2016)
  • 23Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Meadowbrook. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Meadowbrook

This is renter territory: 98% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $1,854 a month, rents run 40% over what the rest of Norfolk commands.

Set annual rent against average income of $57,904 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Norfolk City average of 50.4%. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.3/10. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 37 filings here across 2 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.4% 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 1.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 51710000901

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51710000901?

Census tract 51710000901 in the Meadowbrook neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 51710000901?

Median gross rent is $1,854/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 51710000901?

18.5% of residents in tract 51710000901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,560.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 51710000901?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 53th, minority 67th, housing 22th.
Q5

Is tract 51710000901 considered part of Meadowbrook?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51710000901 fall within Meadowbrook (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51710000901?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 37 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 51710000901 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.87% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 51710000901 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 10.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 51710000901 compare to Norfolk overall?

Tract 51710000901 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Norfolk at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Norfolk eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 51710000901 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 2% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Norfolk

Top eight tracts in Norfolk ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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