Viewmont Eviction Risk: Lower , Hickory

20% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Catawba County average of 31.4%. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Average gross rent is $876, 18% below the Hickory average. Against the Catawba County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,143 filings here across 16 tracked years.

Food insecurity runs 9.5% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.3% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2003 at 32.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 16.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $98,825, annual rent is just 11%. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.