Central City Eviction Risk: Moderate , Huntington

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Cost burden runs 58% here against 48.2% across Cabell County. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 45.5% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10. Against the Cabell County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $821, 10% below the Huntington average. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Huntington. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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