Barton Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 60% against 31.1% citywide, putting Barton Heights 28.8% over its own city. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. Pulling the other way is supply constraint, at 2.1/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Scores across the 2 constituent tracts range from 4.6 to 5.7. A 1.1-point internal spread means block-level underwriting beats area-level here.

On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 2.5/10. Court records carry 2,883 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts.

15.5% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 21.4% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.

At $1,203 a month, rents sit 12% under what the rest of Richmond commands. The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 111.7% of renter households. Among the 54 mapped neighborhoods of Richmond, it ranks #16 by risk, the upper third.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 5.2 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.