Asheville Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.2/10. Average gross rent is $940, 33% below the Asheville average.

Against the Buncombe County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 532 filings here across 11 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2003, when 19.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Asheville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 10.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

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