Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #46,312 of 84,120 nationally
Meadowbrook Forest Eviction Risk: Lower , Norfolk
Tract 51710006606 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 3,769 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 51710006606 sits in the Meadowbrook Forest area of Norfolk eviction risk, Virginia eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 4.9/10. That is riskier than about 33% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 51% of renter households, a severe level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,260 a month while the average household earns $72,324 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 55% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 27%
Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,719
Renter share54.6%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate5.2%
Median income$72,324
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
22
th percentile
Low
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
Centroid at 36.9094, -76.2260 · click any tract to drill in
Why Meadowbrook Forest scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Norfolk
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Virginia legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
5.2% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,260 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Norfolk
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Norfolk
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Norfolk
5.0
How Meadowbrook Forest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 516Total filings over 2 yrs
- 29.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 49.1%Peak (2011)
- 83Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.2%Housing insecurity
- 9.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.9%Food insecurity
- 14.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 10.7%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 33.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Meadowbrook Forest
What moves this score most is housing court bias at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. 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 about the same as the Norfolk City County average of 5.1 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 516 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 29.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 49.1% of renter households in 2011.
In CDC survey modeling, about 14.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.4% 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 51710006606
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51710006606?
Census tract 51710006606 in the Meadowbrook Forest neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 51710006606?
Median gross rent is $1,260/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 51710006606?
5.2% of residents in tract 51710006606 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,769.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 51710006606?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 48th, minority 67th, housing 46th.
Q5
Is tract 51710006606 considered part of Meadowbrook Forest?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51710006606 fall within Meadowbrook Forest (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51710006606?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 516 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 51710006606 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 29.38% of renter households, peaking at 49.1% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 51710006606 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 51710006606 compare to Norfolk overall?
Tract 51710006606 scores 3.7/10, lower than the parent city of Norfolk at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Norfolk eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 51710006606 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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6.1
/ 10 · Elevated
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