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Neighborhood · Huntington, VA

Fair Haven Eviction Risk: Elevated

2 census tracts · pop 3,576 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 6.4/10 · range 6.2–7

Fair Haven spans 2 census tracts of Huntington, VA and houses 3,576 people. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 6.4/10, in the Elevated tier. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

39% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, markedly above the Huntington rate of 29.0%. Running cool is economic stress, at 1.6/10.

The severe-burden share is 13%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Court records carry 68 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. SNAP participation is 6.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity affects 8.3% of adults, 9.5 points below the national rate. The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 5.5% of renter households.

Judgments average 0.7% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Its 2 tracts score within 0.8 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses.

Average gross rent runs $2,018, close to the Huntington average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $98,409. 47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

With little internal variation, 6.4/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.

Risk score
6.4
Elevated
2 tracts · population-weighted
Fair Haven vs Huntington How this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
% of income on rent
39.3% +36%
Huntington: 29.0%
Average gross rent
$2,018 -2%
Huntington: $2,062
Average HH income
$98,409 -1%
Huntington: $99,580
Poverty rate
6.1% -19%
Huntington: 7.5%
Renter share
46.6% -18%
Huntington: 56.7%
Peer neighborhoods

Neighborhoods with similar eviction risk

Same county, closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Fair Haven and the region

Click any tract to drill in · 2 tracts span score 6.2–7

Why Fair Haven scores 6.4

9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendly
State political climate
legislature & governorship · Range 3.2–3.2 across tracts
3.2
Regional political climate
County-level mix · 2024 presidential margin · Range 7.1–7.1 across tracts
7.1
Local political climate
Parent city governance · Range 8.3–8.3 across tracts
8.3
Rent control risk
39% of income on rent · Range 5.7–5.7 across tracts
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State notice requirements & court backlog · Range 3.5–3.5 across tracts
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
47% renter households · Range 9.5–9.5 across tracts
9.5
Housing court bias
County bench composition · Range 5.0–5.0 across tracts
5.0
Economic stress
6.1% below poverty line · Range 1.1–2.8 across tracts
1.6
Supply constraint
Rent-to-FMR gap & zoning friction · Range 3.7–3.7 across tracts
3.7
Risk score comparison

Fair Haven vs. parent city, state, U.S.

Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).

Fair Haven score vs. parent city, state, U.S.Fair Haven: 6.46.4Fair HavenNeighborhoodParent city: 5.95.9Parent cityhost cityState: 4.34.3Stateavg in stateU.S.: 5.15.1U.S.national avgU.S. avg = 5.0
Census tracts

2 tracts in Fair Haven

Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.

Tract Score Pop % over 30% on rent Average rent
51059420501 7 950 57% $2,014
51059420502 6.2 2,626 33% $2,020
Social Vulnerability Index

CDC SVI percentile: 44

Pop-weighted across 2 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.

Socioeconomic status 40%ile
Poverty, unemployment, no-HS-diploma, housing cost burden
Household characteristics 32%ile
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority 60%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport 51%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab

Court-record eviction history in Fair Haven

Aggregated across 2 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 68Total filings (sum)
  • 1.99%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.5%Peak year (2016)
  • 4.12%Latest filed (2016)
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted

Eviction-adjacent indicators in Fair Haven

Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.

Frequently asked

About Fair Haven

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for Fair Haven?

Fair Haven scores 6.4/10 (Elevated tier) across 2 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2

How does Fair Haven compare to Huntington overall?

Fair Haven scores 0.5 points higher than Huntington overall (5.9/10). Renters spend 39% of income on rent vs 29% citywide. Average rent: $2,018 vs $2,062.
Q3

What is the average rent in Fair Haven?

Average gross rent in Fair Haven is $2,018/month (pop-weighted across 2 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4

What percentage of Fair Haven residents are renters?

47% of Fair Haven households are renter-occupied (vs 57% in Huntington). The neighborhood has 3,576 residents.
Q5

Is Fair Haven a high social-vulnerability area?

Fair Haven sits in the 44th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (less vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6

Which tracts in Fair Haven have the highest eviction risk?

The highest-risk constituent tract in Fair Haven is census tract 51059420501 (score 7/10). Across the 2 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 6.2 to 7, a spread of 0.8 points.
Q7

How safe is Fair Haven for landlords?

Fair Haven carries a elevated-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (6.4/10). Pop-weighted across 2 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Huntington as a whole (5.9/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8

What is the demographic breakdown of Fair Haven?

Fair Haven has 3,173 residents. Top groups: White (non-Hispanic) (59.1%), Hispanic / Latino (20.1%), Black (non-Hispanic) (11.3%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
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