Gastonia Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 1.5 points above the Gaston County average of 4.0. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Average gross rent is $976, 19% below the Gastonia average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 939 filings here across 12 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 31.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 20.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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