Bessemer City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37071031600 · Gaston County, NC · pop 4,018 · 48% of tract blocks fall in Bessemer City
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 37071031600 in Bessemer City ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 4,018 residents. That is riskier than roughly 45% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 45% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $974 a month against an average household income of $47,190 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 47% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bessemer City and the region
Centroid at 35.2681, -81.2849 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bessemer City scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bessemer City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 67%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 42%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%Housing & transportation
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)
- 749Total filings over 12 yrs
- 10.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.5%Peak (2013)
- 42Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
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.
- 15.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.4%Food insecurity
- 18.2%SNAP enrollment
- 10.7%Transit barriers
- 11.9%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 37.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bessemer City
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Bessemer City, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Gaston County average of 5.5 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 60th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37071031600
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Highest-risk tracts in Bessemer City
Top eight tracts in Bessemer City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.