Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #63,308 of 84,120 nationally
Barnardsville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37021002900 · Buncombe County, NC · pop 4,143 · 16% of tract blocks fall in Barnardsville
Census tract 37021002900 covers part of Barnardsville, NC, and scores 3.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,143 residents. 9% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Buncombe County average of 46.9%.
Risk score
3.2
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units1,592
Renter share20.6%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate6.7%
Median income$68,288
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
28
th percentile
Low
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
National
25
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Barnardsville and the region
Centroid at 35.7714, -82.3792 · click any tract to drill in
Why Barnardsville scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Barnardsville
4.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
6.7% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,388 rent vs county FMR
4.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Barnardsville
1.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Barnardsville
6.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Barnardsville
3.5
How Barnardsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%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)
- 133Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.26%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.7%Peak (2003)
- 13Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat 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.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.1%Food insecurity
- 8.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 31.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Barnardsville
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.7/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.8/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 133 filings here across 11 tracked years. It sits 0.9 points below the Buncombe County average of 4.1.
The worst year on record was 2003, when 6.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 37021002900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37021002900?
Census tract 37021002900 in Barnardsville scores 3.2/10 (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 37021002900?
Median gross rent is $1,388/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 9% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37021002900?
6.7% of residents in tract 37021002900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,143.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37021002900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 82th, minority 16th, housing 11th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37021002900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 133 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37021002900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.26% of renter households, peaking at 6.7% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37021002900 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.8% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37021002900 compare to Barnardsville overall?
Tract 37021002900 scores 3.2/10, lower than the parent city of Barnardsville at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Barnardsville; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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