Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally
Catawba Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37035011501 · Catawba County, NC · pop 4,737 · 29% of tract blocks fall in Catawba
37035011501 is a census tract in Catawba, NC. It scores 3.7/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,737 residents. Cost burden runs 56% here against 31.4% across Catawba County.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 86%
Tract context
Occupied units2,482
Renter share14.3%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate10.9%
Median income$70,074
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
National
36
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Catawba and the region
Centroid at 35.6380, -81.0599 · click any tract to drill in
Why Catawba scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Catawba
3.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
10.9% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Catawba
6.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Catawba
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Catawba
7.1
How Catawba compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 51
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 58%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
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)
- 307Total filings over 16 yrs
- 5.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2014)
- 18Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 18% over the past 16 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 10.1%Housing insecurity
- 6.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.8%Food insecurity
- 9.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Catawba
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.
The filing record is not thin: 307 evictions over 16 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 7.3% of renter households.
In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.5/10. It tracks the Catawba County average of 4.0 closely.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 37035011501
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37035011501?
Census tract 37035011501 in Catawba scores 3.7/10 (Lower 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 poverty rate in tract 37035011501?
10.9% of residents in tract 37035011501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,737.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 37035011501?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 58th, minority 25th, housing 52th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37035011501?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 307 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 37035011501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.79% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
What share of households in tract 37035011501 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.1% 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. 6.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 37035011501 compare to Catawba overall?
Tract 37035011501 scores 3.7/10, lower than the parent city of Catawba at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Catawba; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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