Clayton Eviction Risk: Lower

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. 43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Johnston County average of 35.7%. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Against the Johnston County average of 4.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. SNAP participation runs 7.8% against 15.2% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 23% 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 4.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,595, close to the Clayton average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $96,047.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.