Altizer Eviction Risk: Moderate , Huntington

Against Cabell County at 48.2%, 70% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $28,343, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against the Cabell County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

At $777 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Huntington commands. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, 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.

50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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