Sunnyside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Morgantown
Tract 54061010104 · Monongalia County, WV · pop 2,960 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
In the Sunnyside area of Morgantown, census tract 54061010104 scores 5.4/10 for eviction risk. It lands near the 51st percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 67% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $940 a month against an average household income of $20,500 a year, roughly 55% of income at the averages. Renters make up 82% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Morgantown and the region
Centroid at 39.6375, -79.9496 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunnyside scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunnyside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 24%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 16.5%Housing insecurity
- 15.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.5%Food insecurity
- 25.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.3%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 29.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $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 Morgantown eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Monongalia County average of 4.7 and above the West Virginia statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 48th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 16.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 15.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 54061010104
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Highest-risk tracts in Morgantown
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