Elizabeth City Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37139960501 · Pasquotank County, NC · pop 3,251 · 25% of tract blocks fall in Elizabeth City
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 37139960501 (Elizabeth City, North Carolina) comes in at 5.3/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #43,071 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 56% of renter households, a severe level, and 25% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,341 a month against an average household income of $69,727 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 21% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Elizabeth City and the region
Centroid at 36.3749, -76.2770 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elizabeth City scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Elizabeth City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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)
- 254Total filings over 9 yrs
- 11.49%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.7%Peak (2002)
- 14Filings 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.
- 11.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.0%Food insecurity
- 11.4%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 35.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elizabeth City
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 6.3/10. 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 Elizabeth City 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 Pasquotank 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 riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 57th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.5% 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 37139960501
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Highest-risk tracts in Elizabeth City
Top eight tracts in Elizabeth City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.