Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Greenville

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Pitt County average of 39.3%. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.4/10. It sits 1.7 points above the Pitt County average of 5.4. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 739 evictions over 14 years of observation.

At $1,108 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Greenville commands. The worst year on record was 2009, when 21.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 13.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $51,667.

54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.