Newton Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.5/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Average gross rent is $895, 18% below the Newton average.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 564 filings here across 16 tracked years. Against the Catawba County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.

The worst year on record was 2004, when 19.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 9.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $72,004, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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