Within parent city
29
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Elizabeth City Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37139960502 · Pasquotank County, NC · pop 6,323 · 23% of tract blocks fall in Elizabeth City
Tract 37139960502 sits in Elizabeth City eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.3/10. Population here is 6,323. Cost burden runs 66% here against 49.2% across Pasquotank County.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units1,958
Renter share24.0%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate4.0%
Median income$57,190
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
33
th percentile
Low
Within state
36
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Elizabeth City and the region
Centroid at 36.3340, -76.2790 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elizabeth City scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Elizabeth City
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
4.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,450 rent vs county FMR
7.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Elizabeth City
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Elizabeth City
2.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Elizabeth City
2.6
How Elizabeth City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 284Total filings over 9 yrs
- 8.54%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.3%Peak (2016)
- 36Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 227% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.4%Housing insecurity
- 9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.9%Food insecurity
- 12.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.9%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Elizabeth City
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
Average gross rent is $1,450, 30% above the Elizabeth City average. The voucher gap is 21.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.
The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 284 filings here across 9 tracked years.
It sits 0.7 points below the Pasquotank County average of 4.0. The worst year on record was 2016, when 9.3% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 8.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 37139960502
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37139960502?
Census tract 37139960502 in Elizabeth City scores 3.3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 37139960502?
Median gross rent is $1,450/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 66% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37139960502?
4.0% of residents in tract 37139960502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,323.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37139960502?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 74th, minority 58th, housing 81th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37139960502?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 284 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 37139960502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.54% of renter households, peaking at 9.3% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37139960502 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37139960502 compare to Elizabeth City overall?
Tract 37139960502 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Elizabeth City at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Elizabeth City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Elizabeth City
Top eight tracts in Elizabeth City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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