Stony Point Eviction Risk: Lower

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 469 filings here across 16 tracked years.

Against the Alexander County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Average gross rent is $791, 12% below the Stony Point average. The worst year on record was 2007, when 8.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.3/10. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $74,187, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. 27% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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