Cheat Lake Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs around a third here against 45.5% across Monongalia County. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

At $896 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Cheat Lake commands. It sits 1.2 points below the Monongalia County average of 4.2.

Food insecurity runs 6.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally.

The severe-burden share is 8%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.6/10. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $102,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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