Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally
Woolsey Eviction Risk: Moderate , Asheville
Tract 37021000400 · Buncombe County, NC · pop 3,988 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 37021000400 sits in the Woolsey area of Asheville eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. Population here is 3,988. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 32%
Tract context
Occupied units1,288
Renter share67.6%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate11.8%
Median income$58,585
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
67
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Asheville and the region
Centroid at 35.6147, -82.5622 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woolsey scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Asheville
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
11.8% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,444 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Asheville
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Asheville
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Asheville
4.0
How Woolsey compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 32%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 22%Grade B
- 32%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 764Total filings over 11 yrs
- 7.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.3%Peak (2010)
- 40Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 60% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Woolsey. 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.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.5%Food insecurity
- 6.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Woolsey
Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is state political climate at 2.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 764 filings here across 11 tracked years.
52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Buncombe County average of 46.9%. SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.5% against 17.8% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 15.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Asheville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 7.5% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6/10.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 37021000400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37021000400?
Census tract 37021000400 in the Woolsey neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 37021000400?
Median gross rent is $1,444/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37021000400?
11.8% of residents in tract 37021000400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,988.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37021000400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 11th, minority 32th, housing 69th.
Q5
Is tract 37021000400 considered part of Woolsey?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37021000400 fall within Woolsey (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37021000400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 764 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37021000400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.48% of renter households, peaking at 15.3% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 37021000400 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.4% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 37021000400 compare to Asheville overall?
Tract 37021000400 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Asheville at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Asheville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 37021000400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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