Downtown Wheeling Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. 91% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. SNAP participation is 37.7% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. 26% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. 42% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, above the Wheeling rate of 33.0%.

20.9% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running cool is tenant-organizing strength, at 1.5/10. Among the 12 mapped neighborhoods of Wheeling, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

The closest comparables inside the same city are South Wheeling Historic District and South Island.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 4.6/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.