West Ghent Eviction Risk: Moderate , Norfolk

Census tract 51710980100 in the West Ghent neighborhood scores 4.1/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51710980100 fall within West Ghent (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 51710980100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.00% of renter households, peaking at 0.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Tract 51710980100 scores 4.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Norfolk at 4.1/10. 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.

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 16% 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.