Wilmington Eviction Risk: Moderate

This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $46,115, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

Against the New Hanover County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.