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Montrose Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Richmond

Tract 51760021000 · Richmond city, VA · pop 2,524 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 51760021000 sits in the Montrose Heights area of Richmond eviction risk, VA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. Population here is 2,524. Severe burden reaches 60%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 47% Stable renters 20% Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units979
Renter share67.4%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate33.2%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Montrose Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 75 tracts In Richmond
High
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 75 tracts In Richmond city
High
Within state
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#188 of 2,186 tracts In Virginia
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Richmond and the region

Centroid at 37.5205, -77.3949 · click any tract to drill in

Why Montrose Heights scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Richmond
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.4
State political climate
Virginia legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
33.2% poverty · this tract
8.3
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Richmond
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Richmond
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Richmond
5.0

How Montrose Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Montrose Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.7This tracttract 0210004.3Richmondparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 83

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 972Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 48.28%Avg annual filing rate
  • 62.4%Peak (2016)
  • 343Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 51760021000
Filings climbed 97% over the past 4 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Montrose Heights

Cost burden runs 70% here against 50.2% across Richmond City. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.8/10.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.4/10.

This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.3/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Richmond City average of 4.3. Housing insecurity runs 24.6% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The filing record is not thin: 972 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 62.4% of renter households were served.

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 51760021000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 51760021000?

Census tract 51760021000 in the Montrose Heights neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 51760021000?

33.2% of residents in tract 51760021000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,524.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 51760021000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 31th, minority 88th, housing 69th.
Q4

Is tract 51760021000 considered part of Montrose Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 51760021000 fall within Montrose Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 51760021000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 972 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 51760021000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 48.28% of renter households, peaking at 62.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 51760021000 struggle to pay rent?

About 24.6% 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. 17.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 51760021000 compare to Richmond overall?

Tract 51760021000 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Richmond at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Richmond eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 51760021000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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