Mills River Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37089930701 · Henderson County, NC · pop 3,575 · 71% of tract blocks fall in Mills River
In Mills River in Henderson County, census tract 37089930701 scores 4.2/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than about 16% of US census tracts.
31% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,895 monthly, set against $107,258 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 11% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mills River and the region
Centroid at 35.4214, -82.5983 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mills River scores 1.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mills River compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 28%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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)
- 88Total filings over 14 yrs
- 3.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.8%Peak (2013)
- 10Filings in 2016 (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.
- 6.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.4%Food insecurity
- 5.2%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Mills River
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 7.5/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Mills River, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Henderson County average of 4.8 and below the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 13th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 88 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 3.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.8% of renter households in 2013.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37089930701
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Highest-risk tracts in Mills River
Top eight tracts in Mills River ranked by composite eviction-risk score.