Copper Beech Eviction Risk: Moderate , Morgantown

82% 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. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.5/10. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 45.5% across Monongalia County.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Monongalia County average of 4.2. At $1,061 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Morgantown commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WV average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $62,981.

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.