James City Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37049961002 · Craven County, NC · pop 4,326 · 85% of tract blocks fall in James City
Census tract 37049961002 sits in James City, North Carolina eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 4.7/10. That is riskier than roughly 28% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 46% of renter households, a severe level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,167 monthly, set against $60,521 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 17% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across James City and the region
Centroid at 35.0454, -76.9981 · click any tract to drill in
Why James City scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow James City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 61%Socioeconomic
- 92%Household composition
- 47%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%Housing & transportation
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)
- 38Total filings over 2 yrs
- 6.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.1%Peak (2018)
- 23Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.4%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.4%Food insecurity
- 11.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 16.7%Frequent mental distress
- 34.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in James City
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 3.9/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from James City, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Craven County average of 5.4 and below the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 77th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in James City
Top eight tracts in James City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.