Firestone Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte

Cost burden runs 59% here against 45.3% across Mecklenburg County. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $46,768, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Food insecurity runs 34.0% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 31.2% against 15.2% nationally. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Mecklenburg County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 678 eviction filings across 4 observed years. At $1,382 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Charlotte commands.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 29.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 31.3% of renter households face a filing.

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.