Gastonia Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. Set annual rent against average income of $36,211 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. 75% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Gaston County average of 4.0. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 24.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 26.3% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 2,564 eviction filings across 12 observed years. Filings peaked in 2010 at 39.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 30.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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