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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Altamahaw Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 37001021500 · Alamance County, NC · pop 4,374 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

Tract 37001021500 sits in the Altamahaw area of Altamahaw, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.1/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2% Stable renters 5% Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units1,564
Renter share6.9%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate6.2%
Median income$83,953

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Altamahaw
Moderate
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Altamahaw
Moderate
Within county
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#32 of 37 tracts In Alamance County
Very Low
Within state
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#1,927 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Altamahaw and the region

Centroid at 36.1917, -79.4829 · click any tract to drill in

Why Altamahaw scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Altamahaw
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.6
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
6.2% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$900 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Altamahaw
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Altamahaw
2.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Altamahaw
1.9

How Altamahaw compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Altamahaw risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0215003.2Altamahawparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 20

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 171Total filings over 17 yrs
  • 4.00%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.1%Peak (2017)
  • 12Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 37001021500
Filings climbed 100% over the past 17 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Altamahaw

27% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Alamance County average of 40.3%. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 171 evictions over 17 years of observation.

Against the Alamance County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2017, when 7.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.8/10. Against average income of $83,953, annual rent is just 13%. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 37001021500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37001021500?

Census tract 37001021500 in the Altamahaw neighborhood scores 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 37001021500?

Median gross rent is $900/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 27% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37001021500?

6.2% of residents in tract 37001021500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,374.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37001021500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 8th, minority 22th, housing 52th.
Q5

Is tract 37001021500 considered part of Altamahaw?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37001021500 fall within Altamahaw (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37001021500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 171 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 37001021500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.00% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 37001021500 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.0% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 37001021500 compare to Altamahaw overall?

Tract 37001021500 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Altamahaw at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Altamahaw; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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