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Willard Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Norfolk

Tract 51710003100 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 2,753 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

51710003100 is a census tract in the Willard Park area of Norfolk, VA. It scores 5.5/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 47%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 25% Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,077
Renter share56.1%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate32.6%
Median income$47,259

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Willard Park
Moderate
Within parent city
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 80 tracts In Norfolk
High
Within county
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 80 tracts In Norfolk city
Very High
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#251 of 2,186 tracts In Virginia
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Norfolk and the region

Centroid at 36.8819, -76.2569 · click any tract to drill in

Why Willard Park scores 5.5

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
32.6% poverty · this tract
8.1
Supply constraint
$1,222 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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 Willard Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Willard Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.5This tracttract 0031004.1Norfolkparent city4.1Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 78

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)

  • 330Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 24.76%Avg annual filing rate
  • 26.5%Peak (2011)
  • 145Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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 Willard Park

The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.1/10. Food insecurity runs 32.2% against 17.8% nationally.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Against the Norfolk City average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Norfolk City average of 50.4%. Housing insecurity runs 24.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 330 filings here across 2 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 26.5% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 51710003100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51710003100?

Census tract 51710003100 in the Willard Park neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (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 51710003100?

Median gross rent is $1,222/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 51710003100?

32.6% of residents in tract 51710003100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,753.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 51710003100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 91th, household 62th, minority 76th, housing 43th.
Q5

Is tract 51710003100 considered part of Willard Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51710003100 fall within Willard Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51710003100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 330 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 51710003100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 24.76% of renter households, peaking at 26.5% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 51710003100 struggle to pay rent?

About 24.0% 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. 18.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 51710003100 compare to Norfolk overall?

Tract 51710003100 scores 5.5/10, 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 51710003100 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. 0% 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.
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Top eight tracts in Norfolk ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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