Within parent city
14
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Shelby Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37045951300 · Cleveland County, NC · pop 3,046 · 34% of tract blocks fall in Shelby
Tract 37045951300 sits in Shelby eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.3/10. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9/10.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units1,073
Renter share22.3%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate10.7%
Median income$62,488
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
35
th percentile
Low
Within state
36
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Shelby and the region
Centroid at 35.3175, -81.5868 · click any tract to drill in
Why Shelby scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Shelby
4.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.4
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
10.7% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$981 rent vs county FMR
5.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Shelby
5.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Shelby
8.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Shelby
6.7
How Shelby compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 56%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 481Total filings over 16 yrs
- 16.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 28.6%Peak (2002)
- 16Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 71% over the past 16 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.7%Housing insecurity
- 6.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.1%Food insecurity
- 9.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 32.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Shelby
Cost burden runs about a quarter here against 38.8% across Cleveland County. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 481 evictions over 16 years of observation. It sits 0.6 points below the Cleveland County average of 3.9.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 28.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 16.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Average gross rent is $981, close to the Shelby average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $62,488.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37045951300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37045951300?
Census tract 37045951300 in Shelby scores 3.3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 37045951300?
Median gross rent is $981/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37045951300?
10.7% of residents in tract 37045951300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,046.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37045951300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 73th, minority 48th, housing 38th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37045951300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 481 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 37045951300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 16.87% of renter households, peaking at 28.6% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37045951300 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37045951300 compare to Shelby overall?
Tract 37045951300 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Shelby at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Shelby eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Shelby
Top eight tracts in Shelby ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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