Southern Pines Eviction Risk: Moderate , Frostproof

Against Polk County at 45.8%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 135 filings here across 17 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $765, 10% above the Frostproof average. Filings peaked in 2001 at 7.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #47,371 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $55,625, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.