Suncrest Eviction Risk: Lower , Star City

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. 12% 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 Monongalia County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Against Monongalia County at 45.5%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 10.6% against 17.8% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $77,143, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,002, close to the Star City average. 47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.