Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Fairmount Eviction Risk: Moderate , Richmond
Tract 51760020400 · Richmond city, VA · pop 4,539 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 51760020400 sits in the Fairmount area of Richmond eviction risk, VA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 48%
Stable renters 35%
Owners 17%
Tract context
Occupied units1,680
Renter share82.3%
SVI overall0.94
Poverty rate43.9%
Median income$24,391
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
91
th percentile
Very High
Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Richmond and the region
Centroid at 37.5464, -77.4208 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fairmount scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Richmond
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.4
State political climate
Virginia legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
43.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$672 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Richmond
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Richmond
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Richmond
5.0
How Fairmount compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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
- 68%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)
- 2,376Total filings over 4 yrs
- 54.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 52.6%Peak (2016)
- 628Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Fairmount. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 39.2%Housing insecurity
- 31.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 51.7%Food insecurity
- 57.6%SNAP enrollment
- 28.1%Transit barriers
- 19.0%No health insurance
- 25.3%Frequent mental distress
- 50.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fairmount
At $672 a month, rents run 51% under what the rest of Richmond commands. Food insecurity runs 51.7% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.8/10. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Disability prevalence runs 50.6% against 31.5% nationally.
This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $24,391, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Richmond City average of 50.2%. Against the Richmond City average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,376 filings here across 4 tracked years.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 51760020400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51760020400?
Census tract 51760020400 in the Fairmount neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 51760020400?
Median gross rent is $672/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 51760020400?
43.9% of residents in tract 51760020400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,539.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 51760020400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 87th, minority 94th, housing 89th.
Q5
Is tract 51760020400 considered part of Fairmount?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51760020400 fall within Fairmount (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51760020400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,376 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 51760020400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 54.13% of renter households, peaking at 52.6% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 51760020400 struggle to pay rent?
About 39.2% 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. 31.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 51760020400 compare to Richmond overall?
Tract 51760020400 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Richmond at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Richmond eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 51760020400 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. 68% 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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