Ridge Area Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harrisonburg
Tract 51660000206 · Harrisonburg city, VA · pop 4,980 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
How risky is Ridge Area in Harrisonburg for landlords? Census tract 51660000206 scores 5.7/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 63% of US census tracts.
About 50% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 50% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $141,250 a year. Renters make up 15% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisonburg and the region
Centroid at 38.4358, -78.8704 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ridge Area scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ridge Area compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 29%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 8%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ridge Area. 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.
- 11.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.3%Food insecurity
- 11.5%SNAP enrollment
- 12.8%Transit barriers
- 9.0%No health insurance
- 28.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ridge Area
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 7.9/10. 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 Harrisonburg eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Harrisonburg City County average of 5.0 and above the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 2nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51660000206
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Highest-risk tracts in Harrisonburg
Top eight tracts in Harrisonburg ranked by composite eviction-risk score.