Oaklawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte

61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Mecklenburg County average of 45.3%. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $33,725, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

At $1,100 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Charlotte commands. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Mecklenburg County average of 4.0. Food insecurity runs 29.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,055 filings here across 4 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2005, when 42.4% of renter households were served.

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.