Panola Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Tarboro

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 1,077 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Against the Edgecombe County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2016, when 31.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 24.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.