Fayetteville Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.3/10. SNAP participation runs 35.9% against 15.2% nationally.

This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $32,500, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.8/10.

Against Cumberland County at 45.9%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $964 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Fayetteville commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Against the Cumberland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 2,992 evictions over 16 years of observation.

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