Brambleton Eviction Risk: Lower , Norfolk
Tract 51710004500 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 1,511 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
With a score of 3.8/10, tract 51710004500 in the Brambleton area of Norfolk, VA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,511. Average gross rent is $407, 69% below the Norfolk average.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
Centroid at 36.8496, -76.2505 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brambleton scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brambleton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 24%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 75Total filings over 2 yrs
- 17.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 21.6%Peak (2011)
- 30Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Brambleton. 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.
- 21.1%Housing insecurity
- 15.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.0%Food insecurity
- 25.9%SNAP enrollment
- 14.1%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 39.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Brambleton
Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 27.0% against 17.8% nationally.
The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.3/10.
Court records carry 75 eviction filings across 2 observed years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2011, when 21.6% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. In a typical year about 17.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 6.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $85,506, annual rent is just 6%.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 51710004500
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