Cheat Lake Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.6/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Monongalia County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.

Food insecurity runs 6.9% against 17.8% nationally. 9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The voucher gap is 14.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Housing insecurity runs 7.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,219, 8% above the Cheat Lake average. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 17% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $127,273, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.