Northside Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Blacksburg

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Montgomery County average of 40.4%. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 55%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Montgomery County average of 5.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $41,215, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The voucher gap is 12.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10. Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.