Fulton Bottom Eviction Risk: Moderate , Richmond

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. SNAP participation runs 38.6% against 15.2% nationally. Set annual rent against average income of $40,372 and the ratio lands at 48%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Cost burden runs 65% here against 50.2% across Richmond City. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.4/10.

The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.4 points above the Richmond City average of 4.3.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,616, 18% above the Richmond average.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 300 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 42.0% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Richmond. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 33.6% of renter households face a filing.

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.