Loudon Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston
Tract 54039001300 · Kanawha County, WV · pop 2,126 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Here is how census tract 54039001300, in Loudon Heights in Charleston eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 3.6/10 eviction-risk score (Lower tier) across a population of 2,126. It lands near the 6th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 27% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 13% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $957 monthly, set against $62,759 in average yearly household income, roughly 18% of income at the averages. Renters make up 77% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Charleston and the region
Centroid at 38.3403, -81.6215 · click any tract to drill in
Why Loudon Heights scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Loudon Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 55%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 64%Grade B
- 12%Grade C
- 1%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Loudon Heights. 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.
- 10.9%Housing insecurity
- 9.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.0%Food insecurity
- 12.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 5.9%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Loudon Heights
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.1/10. 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 Charleston eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Kanawha County average of 4.3 and below the West Virginia statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 1% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was B ("Still Desirable"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 56th 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, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
About tract 54039001300
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