Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 37021003203 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37021003203 · Buncombe County, NC · pop 6,349
Census tract 37021003203 covers part of Buncombe County, NC, and scores 3.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. 72% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Buncombe County average of 46.9%.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units2,195
Renter share34.6%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate9.8%
Median income$64,956
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
44
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
National
36
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Buncombe County and the region
Centroid at 35.5416, -82.4374 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 37021003203 scores 3.7
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
9.8% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,449 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 37021003203 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 34%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%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)
- 235Total filings over 11 yrs
- 10.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.9%Peak (2004)
- 14Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 46% 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.
- 9.3%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.2%Food insecurity
- 10.4%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 15.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 37021003203
30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The main counterweight is state political climate at 2.3/10. Well under the midpoint, local political climate reads 2.3/10.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 235 evictions over 11 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2004, when 25.9% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 10.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 35% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.7/10.
It tracks the Buncombe County average of 4.1 closely. Average gross rent runs $1,449 a month. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $64,956.
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 37021003203
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37021003203?
Census tract 37021003203 in Buncombe County scores 3.7/10 (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 37021003203?
Median gross rent is $1,449/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37021003203?
9.8% of residents in tract 37021003203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,349.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37021003203?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 29th, minority 34th, housing 71th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37021003203?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 235 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37021003203 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.77% of renter households, peaking at 25.9% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37021003203 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.3% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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