Ghent Eviction Risk: Lower , Roanoke

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2.2/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Roanoke City average of 4.2.

Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $72,787, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.

Average gross rent is $936, close to the Roanoke average.

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.