Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #37,882 of 84,120 nationally
Bessemer City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37071031600 · Gaston County, NC · pop 4,018 · 48% of tract blocks fall in Bessemer City
37071031600 is a census tract in Bessemer City, NC. It scores 4.7/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,018. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,466
Renter share47.5%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate22.5%
Median income$47,190
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
75
th percentile
High
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
National
55
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
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-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Bessemer City
4.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.6
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
22.5% poverty · this tract
5.6
Supply constraint
$974 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Bessemer City
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Bessemer City
2.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Bessemer City
2.4
How Bessemer City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
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
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)
- 749Total filings over 12 yrs
- 10.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.5%Peak (2013)
- 42Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 40% over the past 12 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.
- 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
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bessemer City
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
45% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Gaston County average of 40.3%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 749 filings here across 12 tracked years. It sits 0.7 points above the Gaston County average of 4.0.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 14.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 10.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10. Average gross rent is $974, close to the Bessemer City average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $47,190.
47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37071031600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37071031600?
Census tract 37071031600 in Bessemer City scores 4.7/10 (Moderate 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 37071031600?
Median gross rent is $974/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37071031600?
22.5% of residents in tract 37071031600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,018.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37071031600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 59th, minority 42th, housing 45th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37071031600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 749 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 37071031600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.81% of renter households, peaking at 14.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37071031600 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.7% 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. 10.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37071031600 compare to Bessemer City overall?
Tract 37071031600 scores 4.7/10, higher than the parent city of Bessemer City at 3.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Bessemer City; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Bessemer City
Top eight tracts in Bessemer City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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