Within county
23
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 37021002804 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37021002804 · Buncombe County, NC · pop 5,134
Tract 37021002804 sits in Buncombe County, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.1/10. Population here is 5,134. Cost burden runs 6% here against 46.9% across Buncombe County.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units2,104
Renter share18.6%
SVI overall0.31
Poverty rate7.0%
Median income$77,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
31
th percentile
Low
National
22
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Buncombe County and the region
Centroid at 35.7504, -82.5373 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 37021002804 scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
2.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
7.0% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,245 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
State baseline
2.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 37021002804 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 8%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 120Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.2%Peak (2009)
- 7Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 22% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.1%Food insecurity
- 6.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.6%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 37021002804
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. On the softer side, local political climate reads 2.3/10.
Against the Buncombe County average of 4.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 120 evictions over 11 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2009 at 4.2% of renter households.
In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Only 19% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 3.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 37021002804
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37021002804?
Census tract 37021002804 in Buncombe County scores 3.1/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 37021002804?
Median gross rent is $1,245/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 6% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37021002804?
7.0% of residents in tract 37021002804 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,134.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37021002804?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 30th, household 31th, minority 8th, housing 53th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37021002804?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 120 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37021002804 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.48% of renter households, peaking at 4.2% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37021002804 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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