Wilmington Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37129010800 · New Hanover County, NC · pop 2,809 · 98% of tract blocks fall in Wilmington
Wilmington anchors census tract 37129010800, which lands at 5.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 64th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
54% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $925 a month against an average household income of $44,482 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 58% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wilmington and the region
Centroid at 34.1835, -77.9463 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wilmington scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wilmington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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)
- 917Total filings over 12 yrs
- 13.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.2%Peak (2011)
- 47Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 25.6%Housing insecurity
- 18.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.9%Food insecurity
- 34.6%SNAP enrollment
- 18.1%Transit barriers
- 25.7%No health insurance
- 21.5%Frequent mental distress
- 45.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wilmington
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.5/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Wilmington eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the New Hanover County average of 5.2 and above the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 917 eviction filings here over 12 tracked years, with about 13.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 13.2% of renter households in 2011.
In CDC survey modeling, about 25.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 18.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37129010800
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Highest-risk tracts in Wilmington
Top eight tracts in Wilmington ranked by composite eviction-risk score.