Brambleton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Norfolk

Average gross rent is $297, 78% below the Norfolk average. SNAP participation runs 66.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 34.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 72%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 93% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Cost burden runs 37% here against 50.4% across Norfolk City. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Norfolk City average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 339 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 29.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

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