Kings Mountain Eviction Risk: Lower

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10.

Cost burden runs 31% here against 38.8% across Cleveland County. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The filing record is not thin: 517 evictions over 16 years of observation.

At $831 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Kings Mountain commands. The worst year on record was 2018, when 17.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 12.8% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 35% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $65,721, annual rent is just 15%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Cleveland County average of 3.9 closely. 27% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.