Copper Beech Eviction Risk: Moderate , Morgantown

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.2 points above the Monongalia County average of 4.2. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 3/10. Average gross rent is $858, 8% below the Morgantown average.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $59,345, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WV average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.