Forest View Eviction Risk: Moderate , Richmond

Against Richmond City at 50.2%, 79% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.4/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 5,052 filings here across 4 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 137.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 131.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Richmond City average of 4.3 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,305, close to the Richmond average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $66,857.

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.