Westchester Eviction Risk: Moderate , Petersburg
Tract 51730810900 · Petersburg city, VA · pop 3,265 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 51730810900 covers part of the Westchester area of Petersburg, VA, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,265. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Petersburg and the region
Centroid at 37.2090, -77.3777 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westchester scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westchester compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
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)
- 1,944Total filings over 7 yrs
- 49.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 64.3%Peak (2010)
- 159Filings 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.
- 18.6%Housing insecurity
- 12.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.0%Food insecurity
- 21.2%SNAP enrollment
- 11.8%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 38.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westchester
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.9/10. Against the Petersburg City average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.
Average gross rent is $1,383, 18% above the Petersburg average. Cost burden runs 43% here against 48.7% across Petersburg City.
The filing record is not thin: 1,944 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2010 at 64.3% of renter households.
In a typical year about 49.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
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Highest-risk tracts in Petersburg
Top eight tracts in Petersburg ranked by composite eviction-risk score.