Roanoke Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

SNAP participation runs 30.3% against 15.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. The filing record is not thin: 983 evictions over 14 years of observation.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2017 at 10.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 9.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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