Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Carolina Beach Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37129012202 · New Hanover County, NC · pop 3,702 · 93% of tract blocks fall in Carolina Beach
With a score of 3/10, tract 37129012202 in Carolina Beach, NC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,549
Renter share19.9%
SVI overall0.27
Poverty rate6.7%
Median income$89,821
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
32
th percentile
Low
Within state
28
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Carolina Beach and the region
Centroid at 34.0346, -77.9152 · click any tract to drill in
Why Carolina Beach scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Carolina Beach
5.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
6.7% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,569 rent vs county FMR
4.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Carolina Beach
4.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Carolina Beach
4.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Carolina Beach
4.6
How Carolina Beach compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 27
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 404Total filings over 12 yrs
- 6.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.4%Peak (2007)
- 37Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.2%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.4%Food insecurity
- 8.9%SNAP enrollment
- 6.2%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 15.6%Frequent mental distress
- 31.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Carolina Beach
37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the New Hanover County average of 48.2%. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.7/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. It sits 1.0 points below the New Hanover County average of 4.0.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 404 filings here across 12 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 10.4% against 17.8% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2007, when 7.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 37129012202
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37129012202?
Census tract 37129012202 in Carolina Beach scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 37129012202?
Median gross rent is $1,569/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37129012202?
6.7% of residents in tract 37129012202 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,702.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37129012202?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 27th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 66th, household 7th, minority 11th, housing 22th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37129012202?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 404 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 37129012202 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.16% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37129012202 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37129012202 compare to Carolina Beach overall?
Tract 37129012202 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Carolina Beach at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Carolina Beach; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Carolina Beach
Top eight tracts in Carolina Beach ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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