Within county
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 37003040300 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37003040300 · Alexander County, NC · pop 3,235
Census tract 37003040300 covers part of Alexander County, NC, and scores 3.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,235 residents. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units1,366
Renter share30.7%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate16.0%
Median income$60,440
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
50
th percentile
Moderate
National
38
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Alexander County and the region
Centroid at 35.8935, -81.2619 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 37003040300 scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
2.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
16.0% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$542 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
State baseline
2.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 37003040300 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 5%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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)
- 145Total filings over 16 yrs
- 6.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.2%Peak (2016)
- 9Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 200% over the past 16 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.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.5%Food insecurity
- 11.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.8%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 36.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 37003040300
Against Alexander County at 30.7%, about one in five of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, regional political climate reads 2.1/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 145 evictions over 16 years of observation. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 38% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.2/10. Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $60,440, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Alexander County average of 3.7 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37003040300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37003040300?
Census tract 37003040300 in Alexander County 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 37003040300?
Median gross rent is $542/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 19% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37003040300?
16.0% of residents in tract 37003040300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,235.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37003040300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 77th, minority 5th, housing 63th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37003040300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 145 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 37003040300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.39% of renter households, peaking at 7.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37003040300 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.6% 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. 6.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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