Lake Smith Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Virginia Beach
Tract 51810040801 · Virginia Beach city, VA · pop 3,904 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
With a score of 4.7/10, tract 51810040801 in the Lake Smith Terrace area of Virginia Beach, VA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 35% here against 46.1% across Virginia Beach City.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Virginia Beach and the region
Centroid at 36.8666, -76.1396 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lake Smith Terrace scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lake Smith Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%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)
- 290Total filings over 1 yrs
- 34.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 34.1%Peak (2016)
- 290Filings 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.
- 15.2%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.7%Food insecurity
- 15.9%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 11.3%No health insurance
- 19.9%Frequent mental distress
- 33.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lake Smith Terrace
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.6/10. Court records carry 290 eviction filings across 1 observed years. Against the Virginia Beach City average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.
At $1,506 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Virginia Beach commands. Filings peaked in 2016 at 34.1% of renter households.
In a typical year about 34.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Virginia eviction laws Beach as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $66,214.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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