Campostella Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Norfolk
Tract 51710004600 · Norfolk city, VA · pop 2,071 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 51710004600 (the Campostella Heights area of Norfolk, Virginia) comes in at 4.8/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #58,692 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
31% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 8% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $738 a month while the average household earns $41,011 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 78% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Norfolk and the region
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Why Campostella Heights scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Campostella Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 47%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 42%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 86%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 329Total filings over 2 yrs
- 33.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 34.1%Peak (2016)
- 171Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Campostella Heights. 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.
- 32.4%Housing insecurity
- 26.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 43.3%Food insecurity
- 47.8%SNAP enrollment
- 23.0%Transit barriers
- 15.9%No health insurance
- 23.5%Frequent mental distress
- 45.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Campostella Heights
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.8/10. 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 Norfolk eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Norfolk City County average of 5.1 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 77th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 329 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 33.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 34.1% of renter households in 2016.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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