Malvern Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Asheville

Against Buncombe County at 46.9%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 1,870 eviction filings across 11 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 32.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. At $1,289 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Asheville commands.

In a typical year about 23.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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