College Downs Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Mecklenburg County average of 45.3%.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 441 evictions over 4 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 40.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 27.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Mecklenburg County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,611, close to the Charlotte average.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $85,938.

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.