Woolsey Eviction Risk: Lower , Asheville

The clearest offset is economic stress at 2.2/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Food insecurity runs 5.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Against the Buncombe County average of 4.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

Average gross rent is $1,221, 13% below the Asheville average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

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. Nationally it ranks #61,558 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $91,164, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition 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.