Mount Airy Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. 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.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10. Against the Surry County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Court records carry 210 eviction filings across 18 observed years. The worst year on record was 2003, when 16.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 14% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $54,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

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.