Taylorsville Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $657 a month, rents run 32% over what the rest of Taylorsville commands. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.

On the softer side, regional political climate reads 2.1/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The filing record is not thin: 865 evictions over 16 years of observation.

Against the Alexander County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Filings peaked in 2006 at 10.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 6.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $59,710, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 29% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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