Martinsburg Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. At $1,464 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Martinsburg commands. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The voucher gap is 21.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

It sits 0.6 points below the Berkeley County average of 3.6. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $90,858.

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.