Brookfield Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Norfolk
Tract 51710005601 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 4,032 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
51710005601 is a census tract in the Brookfield Park area of Norfolk, VA. It scores 3/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,032 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
Centroid at 36.9296, -76.2264 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brookfield Park scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brookfield Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 55%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 42%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 19%Grade B
- 25%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 260Total filings over 2 yrs
- 30.15%Avg annual filing rate
- 34.3%Peak (2011)
- 114Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.1%Food insecurity
- 8.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Brookfield Park
Against Norfolk City at 50.4%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. At $1,638 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Norfolk commands.
It sits 1.1 points below the Norfolk City average of 4.1. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 260 filings here across 2 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 34.3% 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.
In a typical year about 30.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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