South Wheeling Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 28%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.

The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 1/10. Average gross rent is $543, 32% below the Wheeling average of $794.

Sitting well above the midpoint is economic stress at 8.7/10. 20.2% 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. Food insecurity affects 28.9% of adults, 11.1 points above the national rate.

Among the 12 mapped neighborhoods of Wheeling, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third. For a like-for-like read, Downtown Wheeling Historic District and South Island score within a fraction of it.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $27,346. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 4.6/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.