Sweetwater Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hickory

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Average gross rent is $840, 21% below the Hickory average.

25% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Catawba County average of 31.4%. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Catawba County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 998 filings here across 16 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2003 at 35.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 12.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $61,250, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.