St. Albans Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. At $719 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of St. Albans commands. It sits 0.9 points below the Kanawha County average of 3.9.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $68,578, annual rent is just 13%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in three of renters.

32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.