Wilmington Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37129012007 · New Hanover County, NC · pop 6,476
Wilmington in New Hanover County anchors census tract 37129012007, which lands at 4.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #60,441 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 37% of renter households, a high level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,414 monthly, set against $66,352 in average yearly household income, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 65% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wilmington and the region
Centroid at 34.1750, -77.9145 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wilmington scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wilmington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 58%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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)
- 422Total filings over 12 yrs
- 3.24%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2008)
- 40Filings 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.
- 7.9%Housing insecurity
- 5.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.4%Food insecurity
- 7.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.0%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 31.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wilmington
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 3.9/10. 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 below the New Hanover County average of 5.2 and below 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 422 eviction filings here over 12 tracked years, with about 3.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 5.5% of renter households in 2008.
In CDC survey modeling, about 7.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.4% 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 37129012007
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Highest-risk tracts in Wilmington
Top eight tracts in Wilmington ranked by composite eviction-risk score.