Loudon Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Charleston

77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Cost burden runs 27% here against 36.9% across Kanawha County. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Kanawha County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 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.

Average gross rent is $957, close to the Charleston average. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $62,759.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.