Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Airy Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37171930600 · Surry County, NC · pop 2,886 · 30% of tract blocks fall in Mount Airy
Census tract 37171930600 covers part of Mount Airy, NC, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,886. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 33.7% across Surry County.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 63%
Tract context
Occupied units1,375
Renter share36.3%
SVI overall0.50
Poverty rate19.4%
Median income$47,132
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
70
th percentile
Elevated
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mount Airy and the region
Centroid at 36.4688, -80.6378 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Airy scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Mount Airy
3.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.4
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
19.4% poverty · this tract
4.8
Supply constraint
$611 rent vs county FMR
1.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Mount Airy
5.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Mount Airy
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Mount Airy
7.3
How Mount Airy compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 10%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%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)
- 344Total filings over 18 yrs
- 5.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.3%Peak (2003)
- 26Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 225% over the past 18 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.
- 13.1%Housing insecurity
- 9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.0%Food insecurity
- 16.7%SNAP enrollment
- 9.9%Transit barriers
- 13.7%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 42.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Airy
What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
At $611 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Mount Airy commands. Court records carry 344 eviction filings across 18 observed years.
Against the Surry County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2003 at 12.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $47,132, annual rent is just 16%. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37171930600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37171930600?
Census tract 37171930600 in Mount Airy scores 4.6/10 (Moderate 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 37171930600?
Median gross rent is $611/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37171930600?
19.4% of residents in tract 37171930600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,886.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37171930600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 62th, minority 10th, housing 57th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37171930600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 344 eviction filings across 18 validated years in tract 37171930600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.02% of renter households, peaking at 12.3% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37171930600 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.1% 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 37171930600 compare to Mount Airy overall?
Tract 37171930600 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Mount Airy at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mount Airy; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Mount Airy
Top eight tracts in Mount Airy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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