Sunset Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Reston
Tract 51059482201 · Fairfax County, VA · pop 2,702 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
With a score of 5.3/10, tract 51059482201 in the Sunset Hills area of Reston, VA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Reston and the region
Centroid at 38.9592, -77.3411 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunset Hills scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunset Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 49%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%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)
- 282Total filings over 4 yrs
- 10.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.7%Peak (2013)
- 53Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunset Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.0%Food insecurity
- 11.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.3%Transit barriers
- 11.5%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 27.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunset Hills
This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.2/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Fairfax County average of 4.3.
Average gross rent is $1,857, 17% below the Reston average. Court records carry 282 eviction filings across 4 observed years. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.9/10.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 13.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 10.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. 43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Reston
Top eight tracts in Reston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.