Suffolk Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 51800075601 · Suffolk city, VA · pop 3,626
With a score of 4.7/10, tract 51800075601 in Suffolk ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 3,626 residents. It lands near the 27th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
46% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,091 a month against an average household income of $62,669 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Suffolk and the region
Centroid at 36.6916, -76.5583 · click any tract to drill in
Why Suffolk scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Suffolk compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 26%Housing & transportation
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)
- 1,089Total filings over 6 yrs
- 39.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 63.3%Peak (2013)
- 122Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 15.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.6%Food insecurity
- 26.8%SNAP enrollment
- 14.0%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 18.8%Frequent mental distress
- 39.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Suffolk
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. 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 Suffolk eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Suffolk City County average of 4.3 and below the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 22.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 15.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 70th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 51800075601
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Highest-risk tracts in Suffolk
Top eight tracts in Suffolk ranked by composite eviction-risk score.