Rocky Mount Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. Average gross rent is $735, 23% below the Rocky Mount average. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.1 points above the Nash County average of 3.7. Housing insecurity runs 22.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.