Tract 37021002402 Eviction Risk: Lower

Against Buncombe County at 46.9%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Well under the midpoint, local political climate reads 2.3/10.

The filing record is not thin: 434 evictions over 11 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points below the Buncombe County average of 4.1. Filings peaked in 2011 at 8.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 8.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent runs $1,187 a month. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $68,750.

43% 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.