Albemarle Eviction Risk: Lower , Asheville

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Food insecurity runs 4.5% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

It sits 1.1 points below the Buncombe County average of 4.1. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Court records carry 181 eviction filings across 11 observed years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 4.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 2.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $107,009, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

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