Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Elon Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37001021600 · Alamance County, NC · pop 7,937 · 27% of tract blocks fall in Elon
Tract 37001021600 sits in Elon, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.8/10. Average gross rent is $849, 59% below the Elon average.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units2,363
Renter share25.3%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate9.2%
Median income$70,130
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
61
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
50
th percentile
Moderate
National
38
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Elon and the region
Centroid at 36.1448, -79.5203 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elon scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Elon
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.6
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
9.2% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$849 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Elon
9.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Elon
7.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Elon
8.9
How Elon compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 51
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 885Total filings over 17 yrs
- 10.95%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.1%Peak (2005)
- 41Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 29% over the past 17 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 9.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.2%Food insecurity
- 7.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 28.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Elon
The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.1/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10. 46% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Alamance County average of 40.3%.
The filing record is not thin: 885 evictions over 17 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2005 at 19.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 11.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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 37001021600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37001021600?
Census tract 37001021600 in Elon scores 3.8/10 (Lower 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 37001021600?
Median gross rent is $849/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37001021600?
9.2% of residents in tract 37001021600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,937.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37001021600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 9th, minority 31th, housing 88th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37001021600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 885 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 37001021600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.95% of renter households, peaking at 19.1% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37001021600 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.2% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37001021600 compare to Elon overall?
Tract 37001021600 scores 3.8/10, lower than the parent city of Elon at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Elon; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Elon
Top eight tracts in Elon ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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