Crestmont Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Shelby

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 8.2/10. 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 Shelby eviction risk, 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.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,605 eviction filings here over 16 tracked years, with about 14.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 21.3% of renter households in 2002.

The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 87th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.

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