Bessemer City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37071030503 · Gaston County, NC · pop 2,049 · 2% of tract blocks fall in Bessemer City
Tract 37071030503 sits in Bessemer City, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It is home to 2,049 residents. 48% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bessemer City and the region
Centroid at 35.3226, -81.3418 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bessemer City scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bessemer City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 12%Racial/ethnic minority
- 8%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.0%Housing insecurity
- 9.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.7%Food insecurity
- 16.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 12.2%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 37.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bessemer City
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. At $631 a month, rents run 40% under what the rest of Bessemer City commands.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Cost burden runs about half here against 40.3% across Gaston County. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 6% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $43,819, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Gaston County average of 4.0 closely.
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.
About tract 37071030503
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Highest-risk tracts in Bessemer City
Top eight tracts in Bessemer City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.