Within parent city
15
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Hickory Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37035010301 · Catawba County, NC · pop 4,996 · 34% of tract blocks fall in Hickory
Census tract 37035010301 covers part of Hickory, NC, and scores 3.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units1,993
Renter share10.9%
SVI overall0.46
Poverty rate9.1%
Median income$68,686
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
39
th percentile
Low
Within state
45
th percentile
Moderate
National
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hickory and the region
Centroid at 35.7889, -81.2579 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hickory scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Hickory
3.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
9.1% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$733 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hickory
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hickory
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hickory
5.9
How Hickory compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 32%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%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)
- 394Total filings over 16 yrs
- 8.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.1%Peak (2009)
- 24Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 25% over the past 16 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.
- 9.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.3%Food insecurity
- 8.9%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hickory
At $733 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Hickory commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Cost burden runs 26% here against 31.4% across Catawba County. Court records carry 394 eviction filings across 16 observed years. The worst year on record was 2009, when 15.1% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 8.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10. Against average income of $68,686, annual rent is just 13%.
It tracks the Catawba County average of 4.0 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37035010301
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37035010301?
Census tract 37035010301 in Hickory scores 3.6/10 (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 37035010301?
Median gross rent is $733/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37035010301?
9.1% of residents in tract 37035010301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,996.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37035010301?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 46th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 55th, minority 32th, housing 40th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37035010301?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 394 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 37035010301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.81% of renter households, peaking at 15.1% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37035010301 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.9% 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. 6.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37035010301 compare to Hickory overall?
Tract 37035010301 scores 3.6/10, lower than the parent city of Hickory at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hickory eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Hickory
Top eight tracts in Hickory ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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Claremont
5.2
/ 10 · Moderate
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North Hickory
5.1
/ 10 · Moderate
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Forest Hills
5
/ 10 · Moderate
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Green Park
5
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.9
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.7
/ 10 · Moderate
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