Wilmington Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37129011703 · New Hanover County, NC · pop 4,454 · 81% of tract blocks fall in Wilmington
Census tract 37129011703 runs through Wilmington in New Hanover County. With 4,454 residents, it scores 5.1/10 for landlords. It lands near the 42nd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 63% of renter households, a severe level, and 44% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,064 a month against an average household income of $163,712 a year, roughly 15% of income at the averages. Renters make up 31% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wilmington and the region
Centroid at 34.2360, -77.8227 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wilmington scores 2.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wilmington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 13%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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)
- 109Total filings over 12 yrs
- 5.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.0%Peak (2010)
- 5Filings 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.
- 3.9%Housing insecurity
- 2.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.3%Food insecurity
- 2.9%SNAP enrollment
- 3.2%Transit barriers
- 4.3%No health insurance
- 11.1%Frequent mental distress
- 26.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wilmington
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 8.1/10. 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 about the same as the New Hanover County average of 5.2 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 109 eviction filings here over 12 tracked years, with about 5.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 11.0% of renter households in 2010.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 9th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37129011703
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Highest-risk tracts in Wilmington
Top eight tracts in Wilmington ranked by composite eviction-risk score.