Whittenburg Springs Eviction Risk: Lower , Bethlehem

Running cool, housing-court posture reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, regional political climate reads 2.1/10. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Court records carry 380 eviction filings across 16 observed years. 26% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Alexander County average of 30.7%. It sits 0.7 points below the Alexander County average of 3.7.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 12.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 6.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 13% 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 4.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $72,266, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.