Kings Mountain Eviction Risk: Moderate

The heaviest input here is rent-control risk at 9.3/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Kings Mountain, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Cleveland County average of 5.7 and above the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

In CDC survey modeling, about 14.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,881 eviction filings here over 16 tracked years, with about 12.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 20.8% of renter households in 2002.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.