Newton Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Catawba County at 31.4%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.

Against the Catawba County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Court records carry 412 eviction filings across 16 observed years.

At $946 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Newton commands. The worst year on record was 2013, when 12.1% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 11.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $60,625.

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.