Brambleton Eviction Risk: Elevated , Norfolk
Tract 51710004800 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 1,438 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Here is how census tract 51710004800, in the Brambleton neighborhood of Norfolk eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 5.6/10 eviction-risk score (Moderate tier) across a population of 1,438. That is riskier than about 59% of US census tracts.
About 38% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 4% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is about $318 a month. Renters make up 100% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
Centroid at 36.8469, -76.2802 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brambleton scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brambleton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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
- 56%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)
- 466Total filings over 2 yrs
- 50.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 53.3%Peak (2016)
- 264Filings 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.
- 46.7%Housing insecurity
- 40.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 62.4%Food insecurity
- 70.6%SNAP enrollment
- 35.9%Transit barriers
- 21.8%No health insurance
- 29.5%Frequent mental distress
- 55.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Brambleton
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Norfolk eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Norfolk City County average of 5.1 and in line with the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 91st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 46.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 40.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51710004800
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Highest-risk tracts in Norfolk
Top eight tracts in Norfolk ranked by composite eviction-risk score.