Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
Ballentine Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Norfolk
Tract 51710004400 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 2,560 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 51710004400 covers part of the Ballentine Place area of Norfolk, VA, and scores 5.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,560 residents. At $653 a month, rents run 51% under what the rest of Norfolk commands.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 24%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units731
Renter share44.6%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate35.0%
Median income$56,636
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
91
th percentile
Very High
Within state
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
Centroid at 36.8564, -76.2541 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ballentine Place scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Norfolk
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Virginia legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
35.0% poverty · this tract
8.7
Supply constraint
$653 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Norfolk
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Norfolk
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Norfolk
5.0
How Ballentine Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 4%Grade C
- 27%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 88Total filings over 2 yrs
- 17.45%Avg annual filing rate
- 29.0%Peak (2011)
- 15Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ballentine Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.5%Housing insecurity
- 21.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.0%Food insecurity
- 38.2%SNAP enrollment
- 18.7%Transit barriers
- 13.5%No health insurance
- 20.6%Frequent mental distress
- 41.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ballentine Place
SNAP participation runs 38.2% against 15.2% nationally. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10.
The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Food insecurity runs 36.0% against 17.8% nationally.
The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.7/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Norfolk City average of 4.1.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Cost burden runs 46% here against 50.4% across Norfolk City.
The filing record is not thin: 88 evictions over 2 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2011, when 29.0% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Norfolk. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 51710004400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51710004400?
Census tract 51710004400 in the Ballentine Place neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 51710004400?
Median gross rent is $653/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 51710004400?
35.0% of residents in tract 51710004400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,560.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 51710004400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 88th, minority 95th, housing 51th.
Q5
Is tract 51710004400 considered part of Ballentine Place?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51710004400 fall within Ballentine Place (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51710004400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 88 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 51710004400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.45% of renter households, peaking at 29.0% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 51710004400 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 21.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 51710004400 compare to Norfolk overall?
Tract 51710004400 scores 5.5/10, higher than the parent city of Norfolk at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Norfolk eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 51710004400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 27% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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