Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
South Slope Eviction Risk: Moderate , Asheville
Tract 37021000100 · Buncombe County, NC · pop 1,317 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 5.5/10, tract 37021000100 in the South Slope area of Asheville, NC reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,317 residents. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 23%
Tract context
Occupied units522
Renter share76.6%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate40.7%
Median income$20,455
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
97
th percentile
Very High
Within county
100
th percentile
Very High
Within state
94
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Asheville and the region
Centroid at 35.5949, -82.5532 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Slope scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Asheville
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
40.7% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$458 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Asheville
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Asheville
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Asheville
4.0
How South Slope compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 14%Grade C
- 19%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 267Total filings over 11 yrs
- 4.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.4%Peak (2003)
- 28Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 22% over the past 11 months.
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.
- 14.1%Housing insecurity
- 11.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.5%Food insecurity
- 22.1%SNAP enrollment
- 11.3%Transit barriers
- 13.1%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 41.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in South Slope
At $458 a month, rents run 67% under what the rest of Asheville commands. The poverty rate is 41%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.4 points above the Buncombe County average of 4.1.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Against Buncombe County at 46.9%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened.
The filing record is not thin: 267 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2003 at 7.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37021000100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37021000100?
Census tract 37021000100 in the South Slope neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (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 37021000100?
Median gross rent is $458/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37021000100?
40.7% of residents in tract 37021000100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,317.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37021000100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 46th, minority 53th, housing 89th.
Q5
Is tract 37021000100 considered part of South Slope?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37021000100 fall within South Slope (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37021000100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 267 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37021000100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.23% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 37021000100 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.1% 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. 11.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 37021000100 compare to Asheville overall?
Tract 37021000100 scores 5.5/10, higher than the parent city of Asheville at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Asheville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 37021000100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 19% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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