Columbia Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Arlington
Tract 51013103200 · Arlington County, VA · pop 5,793 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
51013103200 is a census tract in the Columbia Heights area of Arlington, VA. It scores 6/10 for landlords. Population here is 5,793. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Arlington and the region
Centroid at 38.8598, -77.0834 · click any tract to drill in
Why Columbia Heights scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Columbia Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 69Total filings over 1 yrs
- 3.61%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.6%Peak (2016)
- 69Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.2%Food insecurity
- 4.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 13.4%Frequent mental distress
- 19.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Columbia Heights
Cost burden runs 28% here against 38.9% across Arlington County. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10.
Food insecurity runs 7.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 4.8% against 15.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
The filing record is not thin: 69 evictions over 1 years of observation. At $2,055 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Arlington commands.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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.
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Top eight tracts in Arlington ranked by composite eviction-risk score.