Fort Ward Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

This is a renter market: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.6/10. 18% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.6 to 6.8, a 1.2-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. Running cool is supply constraint, at 2.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,825, 13% below the Alexandria average of $2,089.

Among the 26 mapped neighborhoods of Alexandria, it ranks #7 by risk, the upper third. For a like-for-like read, Washington Forest and Beverley Hills score within a fraction of it.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $84,199.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6.3 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.