Polkville Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9/10. Average gross rent is $542, 34% below the Polkville average.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Cleveland County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 148 filings here across 16 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 9.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $43,889, annual rent is just 15%. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.