Claremont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hickory

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Catawba County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $888 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Hickory commands. The filing record is not thin: 1,799 evictions over 16 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 12.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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