Ridge Area Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harrisonburg

Cost burden runs 66% here against 40.7% across Harrisonburg City. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Annualized rent equals 50% of average household income of $30,417, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 68%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Against the Harrisonburg City average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.6/10.

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.