Gastonia Eviction Risk: Lower

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $1,339, 11% above the Gastonia average. Against the Gaston County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.

That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 38% of renters.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $71,641.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.