Miller Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Norfolk
Tract 51710005701 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 4,073 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
How risky is the Miller Heights neighborhood of Norfolk for landlords? Census tract 51710005701 scores 5.8/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 67th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
63% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 38% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $980 a month against an average household income of $40,291 a year, roughly 29% of income at the averages. Renters make up 62% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
Centroid at 36.9109, -76.2553 · click any tract to drill in
Why Miller Heights scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Miller Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 0%Grade B
- 35%Grade C
- 8%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)
- 1,224Total filings over 2 yrs
- 45.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 55.5%Peak (2011)
- 436Filings 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.
- 27.4%Housing insecurity
- 21.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.4%Food insecurity
- 39.0%SNAP enrollment
- 19.3%Transit barriers
- 15.1%No health insurance
- 21.9%Frequent mental distress
- 42.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Miller Heights
What moves this score most is economic stress at 9.1/10. 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 above the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is racially mixed and ranks around the 93rd 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 27.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 21.7% 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 51710005701
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