Lawson Forest Eviction Risk: Lower , Virginia Beach
Tract 51810040404 · Virginia Beach city, VA · pop 8,377 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 51810040404 runs through Lawson Forest in Virginia Beach. With 8,377 residents, it scores 4.5/10 for landlords. That is riskier than about 22% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 46% of renter households, a severe level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,971 monthly, set against $97,315 in average yearly household income, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 21% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Virginia Beach and the region
Centroid at 36.8802, -76.1630 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lawson Forest scores 2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lawson Forest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 15%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%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)
- 88Total filings over 1 yrs
- 9.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.6%Peak (2016)
- 88Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lawson Forest. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 6.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 6.6%No health insurance
- 14.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lawson Forest
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 6.6/10. 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 Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach City County average of 4.5 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 37th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 88 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 9.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 9.6% of renter households in 2016.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51810040404
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