City Center Eviction Risk: Moderate , Richmond

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.8/10. roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Richmond City average of 50.2%. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.4/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 768 filings here across 4 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,169, 15% below the Richmond average.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 24.9% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 25.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Richmond City average of 4.3 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.