Asheville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37021002204 · Buncombe County, NC · pop 9,317 · 78% of tract blocks fall in Asheville
Asheville anchors census tract 37021002204, which lands at 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 53rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 42% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,588 a month against an average household income of $74,351 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. About 63% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Asheville and the region
Centroid at 35.4980, -82.5433 · click any tract to drill in
Why Asheville scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Asheville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
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)
- 602Total filings over 11 yrs
- 4.69%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.0%Peak (2004)
- 39Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 6.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.0%Food insecurity
- 5.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 6.9%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Asheville
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 6.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Asheville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Buncombe County average of 5.4 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 48th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37021002204
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Highest-risk tracts in Asheville
Top eight tracts in Asheville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.