Laurel Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower

Against a Glen Allen baseline of 26.4%, about one in five of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. The filing record is not thin: 15 evictions logged in this tract. Severe burden reaches 10%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

SNAP participation is 6.5% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity affects 8.7% of adults, 9.1 points below the national rate. The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 6.2% of renter households.

That places it #3 of 4 neighborhoods in Glen Allen. Judgments average 1.5% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. The closest comparables inside the same city are The Belmont At River Mill and Middleton. Rent takes 20% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.4 points apart at the extremes.

Average gross rent runs $1,707, close to the Glen Allen average.

With little internal variation, 3.2/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.