St. Albans Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $769 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of St. Albans commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 40th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $56,806, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 38% of renters. It tracks the Kanawha County average of 3.9 closely.

29% 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.