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Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally

Beechwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Parkersburg

Tract 54107000300 · Wood County, WV · pop 3,089 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Tract 54107000300 sits in the Beechwood area of Parkersburg eviction risk, WV, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.6/10. It is home to 3,089 residents. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Wood County average of 40.4%.

Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 21% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,470
Renter share48.8%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate27.7%
Median income$36,518

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Beechwood
Moderate
Within parent city
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 14 tracts In Parkersburg
High
Within county
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 28 tracts In Wood County
Very High
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#93 of 546 tracts In West Virginia
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Parkersburg and the region

Centroid at 39.2808, -81.5348 · click any tract to drill in

Why Beechwood scores 4.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Parkersburg
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.9
State political climate
West Virginia legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
27.7% poverty · this tract
6.9
Supply constraint
$671 rent vs county FMR
2.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Parkersburg
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Parkersburg
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Parkersburg
2.5

How Beechwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Beechwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.6This tracttract 0003003.2Parkersburgparent city3.5Countyavg tract in county3.8Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 77

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Beechwood

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. SNAP participation runs 32.0% against 15.2% nationally. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Wood County average of 3.5. At $671 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Parkersburg commands.

Food insecurity runs 25.2% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.9/10.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $36,518.

49% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 54107000300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 54107000300?

Census tract 54107000300 in the Beechwood neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 54107000300?

Median gross rent is $671/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 54107000300?

27.7% of residents in tract 54107000300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,089.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 54107000300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 98th, minority 6th, housing 62th.
Q5

Is tract 54107000300 considered part of Beechwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 54107000300 fall within Beechwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 54107000300 struggle to pay rent?

About 17.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 16.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 54107000300 compare to Parkersburg overall?

Tract 54107000300 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Parkersburg at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Parkersburg eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Parkersburg

Top eight tracts in Parkersburg ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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