Irish Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Martinsburg

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Against Berkeley County at 39.5%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.2 points above the Berkeley County average of 3.6. SNAP participation runs 22.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WV average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,171, close to the Martinsburg average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.