Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Warwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Wheeling

Tract 54069000200 · Ohio County, WV · pop 3,185 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 54069000200 in the Warwood area of Wheeling, WV reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,185 residents. Cost burden runs 31% here against 46.2% across Ohio County.

Risk score

Lower

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 11% Stable renters 25% Owners 64%

Tract context

Occupied units1,333

Renter share36.2%

SVI overall0.57

Poverty rate10.2%

Median income$57,994

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Wheeling and the region

Centroid at 40.1165, -80.6974 · click any tract to drill in

Why Warwood scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Wheeling

3.0

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

3.7

State political climate

West Virginia legislature & governorship

1.8

Economic stress

10.2% poverty · this tract

2.6

Supply constraint

$677 rent vs county FMR

2.1

Rent control risk

Inherited from Wheeling

1.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

2.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Wheeling

1.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from Wheeling

2.5

How Warwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 57

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

58%Socioeconomic
63%Household composition
19%Racial/ethnic minority
59%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
6%Grade B
16%Grade C
3%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.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

12.0%Housing insecurity
10.7%Utility-shutoff threat
15.3%Food insecurity
17.4%SNAP enrollment
8.6%Transit barriers
8.3%No health insurance
20.8%Frequent mental distress
39.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Warwood

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

At $677 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Wheeling commands. Against the Ohio County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.2/10. Against average income of $57,994, annual rent is just 14%.

36% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 54069000200

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 54069000200?

Census tract 54069000200 in the Warwood neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 54069000200?

Median gross rent is $677/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 54069000200?

10.2% of residents in tract 54069000200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,185.

How socially vulnerable is tract 54069000200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 58th, household 63th, minority 19th, housing 59th.

Is tract 54069000200 considered part of Warwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 54069000200 fall within Warwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 54069000200 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 10.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 54069000200 compare to Wheeling overall?

Tract 54069000200 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Wheeling at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wheeling eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 54069000200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 3% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

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