Asheville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $1,834, 31% above the Asheville average. Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 2.3/10. The voucher gap is 21.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. SNAP participation runs 6.5% against 15.2% nationally.

Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 46.9% across Buncombe County. Housing insecurity runs 7.1% against 14.2% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Buncombe County average of 4.1 closely. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $72,166. 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.