Roanoke Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37083930200 · Halifax County, NC · pop 4,780
Census tract 37083930200 belongs to Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. It is home to 4,780 residents and scores 5.8/10, a moderate reading for landlords. It lands near the 67th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 36% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 9% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $802 monthly, set against $58,333 in average yearly household income, roughly 16% of income at the averages. About 46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Roanoke Rapids and the region
Centroid at 36.4552, -77.6412 · click any tract to drill in
Why Roanoke Rapids scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Roanoke Rapids compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 57%Socioeconomic
- 54%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%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)
- 1,273Total filings over 14 yrs
- 9.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.2%Peak (2004)
- 67Filings 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.
- 11.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 11.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 8.5%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 31.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Roanoke Rapids
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 9.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Roanoke Rapids, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Halifax County average of 6.3 and above 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 11.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 68th 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 37083930200
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Highest-risk tracts in Roanoke Rapids
Top eight tracts in Roanoke Rapids ranked by composite eviction-risk score.