Fairview Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Parkersburg
Tract 54107000702 · Wood County, WV · pop 1,641 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 54107000702 covers Fairview Heights in Parkersburg, home to 1,641 residents. For landlords it grades 4.5/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than roughly 21% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
67% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 38% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $877 monthly, set against $48,606 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Parkersburg and the region
Centroid at 39.2680, -81.5263 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fairview Heights scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fairview Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 21%Racial/ethnic minority
- 3%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Fairview Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 19.0%Housing insecurity
- 18.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 28.3%Food insecurity
- 35.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.7%Transit barriers
- 11.7%No health insurance
- 25.5%Frequent mental distress
- 47.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Fairview Heights
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 6.8/10. 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 Parkersburg eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Wood County average of 4.0 and in line with the West Virginia statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 19.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 18.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 37th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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