South Island Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wheeling

81% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Ohio County average of 46.2%. Set annual rent against average income of $18,654 and the ratio lands at 62%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Food insecurity runs 35.0% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

At $958 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Wheeling commands. Housing insecurity runs 24.2% against 14.2% nationally. It sits 1.0 points above the Ohio County average of 3.6.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Wheeling. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.