Chesapeake Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 2/10. On the softer side is economic stress, at 2/10. 17% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 3.3 to 4.5, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. Court records for this tract carry 194 eviction filings.

The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 14.2% of renter households. At $1,599 a month, rents sit 7% under what the rest of Virginia Beach commands.

Among the 53 mapped neighborhoods of Virginia Beach, it ranks #17 by risk, the upper third. Judgments average 4.4% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

For a like-for-like read, East Beach and Lake View score within a fraction of it. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $82,653.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 4.1 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.