Westhaven Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Suffolk
Tract 51800075401 · Suffolk city, VA · pop 2,500 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 51800075401 covers part of the Westhaven Lakes area of Suffolk, VA, and scores 3.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,500 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.4/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Suffolk and the region
Centroid at 36.7475, -76.6039 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westhaven Lakes scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westhaven Lakes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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)
- 286Total filings over 6 yrs
- 21.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 38.4%Peak (2016)
- 78Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 8.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.3%Food insecurity
- 10.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 27.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westhaven Lakes
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Suffolk City at 46.8%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.5/10. Court records carry 286 eviction filings across 6 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 38.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 21.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Suffolk City average of 3.6 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,620, close to the Suffolk average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $71,204.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 51800075401
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Highest-risk tracts in Suffolk
Top eight tracts in Suffolk ranked by composite eviction-risk score.