Highland Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Richmond

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Richmond City at 50.2%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.4/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 392 eviction filings across 4 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 79.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Richmond. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 47.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Richmond City average of 4.3 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.