Black Mountain Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 85% here against 46.9% across Buncombe County. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.3/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Buncombe County average of 4.1.

At $1,423 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Black Mountain commands. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 57% 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.