Westhaven Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Suffolk
Tract 51800075401 · Suffolk city, VA · pop 2,500 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 51800075401 covers Westhaven Lakes in Suffolk, home to 2,500 residents. For landlords it grades 4.2/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than about 15% of US census tracts.
40% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,620 a month while the average household earns $71,204 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 59% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Suffolk and the region
Centroid at 36.7475, -76.6039 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westhaven Lakes scores 2.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westhaven Lakes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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)
- 286Total filings over 6 yrs
- 21.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 38.4%Peak (2016)
- 78Filings 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.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 8.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.3%Food insecurity
- 10.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 27.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westhaven Lakes
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 4.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Suffolk eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Suffolk City County average of 4.3 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 286 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 21.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 38.4% of renter households in 2016.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 52nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51800075401
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Top eight tracts in Suffolk ranked by composite eviction-risk score.