Within county
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #42,763 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 37003040300 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37003040300 · Alexander County, NC · pop 3,235
Census tract 37003040300 covers Alexander, home to 3,235 residents. For landlords it grades 3.9/10, a lower reading. That is riskier than about 10% of US census tracts.
About 19% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 9% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $542 a month while the average household earns $60,440 a year, roughly 11% of income at the averages. Renters make up 31% of occupied homes.
Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units1,366
Renter share30.7%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate16.0%
Median income$60,440
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
55
th percentile
Elevated
National
49
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Alexander County and the region
Centroid at 35.8935, -81.2619 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 37003040300 scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
2.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
16.0% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$542 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
State baseline
2.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 37003040300 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 5%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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)
- 145Total filings over 16 yrs
- 6.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.2%Peak (2016)
- 9Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 200% over the past 16 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.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.5%Food insecurity
- 11.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.8%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 36.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 37003040300
The heaviest input here is eviction process difficulty at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are set by North Carolina eviction laws law, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Alexander County average of 4.2 and below the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 58th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
Frequently asked
About tract 37003040300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37003040300?
Census tract 37003040300 in Alexander County scores 3.9/10 (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 37003040300?
Median gross rent is $542/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 19% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37003040300?
16.0% of residents in tract 37003040300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,235.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37003040300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 77th, minority 5th, housing 63th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37003040300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 145 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 37003040300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.39% of renter households, peaking at 7.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37003040300 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.6% 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. 6.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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