University Terrace Eviction Risk: Elevated , Blacksburg

Against Montgomery County at 40.4%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $10,711 and the ratio lands at 158%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 83%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 38.2% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 2.6 points above the Montgomery County average of 5.1. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Food insecurity runs 38.5% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10. The voucher gap is 14.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the VA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.5 points hotter.

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.