Westhampton Eviction Risk: Lower , McLean

Against Fairfax County at 41.0%, 31% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.4/10.

At $2,698 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of McLean commands. Housing insecurity runs 4.6% against 14.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 16.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Court records carry 4 eviction filings across 2 observed years. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.

Against the Fairfax County average of 4.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2011, when 1.4% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #57,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

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.