Marcum Terrace Eviction Risk: Lower , Huntington

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 23.1% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 50% of renters.

It tracks the Cabell County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $941, close to the Huntington average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $45,600.

27% 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.