Ghent Eviction Risk: Lower , Norfolk

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 42% here against 50.4% across Norfolk City.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.4/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.3/10.

Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 126 evictions over 2 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Norfolk City average of 4.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2011, when 7.6% 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 7.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.