Beechmont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newport News
Tract 51700032228 · Newport News city, VA · pop 2,947 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 51700032228 sits in the Beechmont area of Newport News eviction risk, Virginia eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 6.3/10. It lands near the 82nd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 48% of renter households, a severe level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,494 a month while the average household earns $63,654 a year, roughly 28% of income at the averages. About 53% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newport News and the region
Centroid at 37.1362, -76.5509 · click any tract to drill in
Why Beechmont scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Beechmont compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Beechmont. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.2%Food insecurity
- 20.5%SNAP enrollment
- 11.9%Transit barriers
- 10.2%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 34.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Beechmont
What moves this score most is economic stress at 6.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Newport News eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Newport News City County average of 5.8 and above the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 68th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 18.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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