Westend Eviction Risk: Moderate

68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. 20% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Scores across the 2 constituent tracts range from 3.7 to 5.1. A 1.4-point internal spread means block-level underwriting beats area-level here.

Against a Lynchburg baseline of 31.0%, 37% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Filings are well documented here: 275 across 2 observed tracts. On the softer side is tenant-organizing strength, at 3/10. Filing activity peaked in 2014 at 22.4% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 9.5% in 2016, is well off that peak. That places it #9 of 22 neighborhoods in Lynchburg.

For a like-for-like read, Court House Hill and Lower Rivermont score within a fraction of it. Average gross rent runs $1,072, close to the Lynchburg average.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 4.4 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.