Poplar Ridge Eviction Risk: Lower , Chesapeake
Tract 51550021101 · Chesapeake city, VA · pop 4,903 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 51550021101 covers Poplar Ridge in Chesapeake in Virginia. Home to 4,903 residents, it scores 4.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 15th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
35% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,792 monthly, set against $125,203 in average yearly household income, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 4% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Chesapeake and the region
Centroid at 36.7123, -76.2077 · click any tract to drill in
Why Poplar Ridge scores 1.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Poplar Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 22%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 4%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)
- 66Total filings over 6 yrs
- 7.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.3%Peak (2013)
- 14Filings 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.
- 6.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.6%Food insecurity
- 5.6%SNAP enrollment
- 4.8%Transit barriers
- 5.8%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 26.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Poplar Ridge
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at $1/10. 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 Chesapeake eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Chesapeake City County average of 4.3 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 66 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 7.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 12.3% of renter households in 2013.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51550021101
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