Coal Fork Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 54039011401 · Kanawha County, WV · pop 2,926 · 17% of tract blocks fall in Coal Fork
54039011401 is a census tract in Coal Fork, WV. It scores 3/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,926 residents. Cost burden runs about one in five here against 36.9% across Kanawha County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Coal Fork and the region
Centroid at 38.3416, -81.5427 · click any tract to drill in
Why Coal Fork scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Coal Fork compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.5%Housing insecurity
- 9.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 13.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 20.7%Frequent mental distress
- 35.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Coal Fork
The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. The voucher gap is 37.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Running hot, supply constraint reads 8.8/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. At $1,450 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Coal Fork commands.
Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Kanawha County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.
Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $76,542. 40% 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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Coal Fork
Top eight tracts in Coal Fork ranked by composite eviction-risk score.