Southside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Huntington

The poverty rate is 54%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Set annual rent against average income of $18,237 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 92% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against Cabell County at 48.2%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $684 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Huntington commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Cabell County average of 3.8.

Housing insecurity runs 22.1% against 14.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.