Seneca Eviction Risk: Moderate , Morgantown

Set annual rent against average income of $14,057 and the ratio lands at 71%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 68%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs 60% here against 45.5% across Monongalia County. Food insecurity runs 40.1% against 17.8% nationally.

This is renter territory: 93% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Against the Monongalia County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Average gross rent is $827, 12% below the Morgantown average.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.5/10. Statewide the WV average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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