Neighborhood · Ranked #37,882 of 84,120 nationally

Walltown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Durham

Tract 37063000301 · Durham County, NC · pop 2,917 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Census tract 37063000301 covers part of the Walltown area of Durham, NC, and scores 4.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,917 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.4/10.

Risk score

4.7

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 45% Owners 28%

Tract context

Occupied units1,601

Renter share71.5%

SVI overall0.47

Poverty rate12.5%

Median income$58,680

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Durham and the region

Centroid at 36.0173, -78.9127 · click any tract to drill in

Why Walltown scores 4.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Durham

7.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

8.1

State political climate

North Carolina legislature & governorship

2.3

Economic stress

12.5% poverty · this tract

3.1

Supply constraint

$1,161 rent vs county FMR

1.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Durham

2.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

4.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Durham

6.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from Durham

4.5

How Walltown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 47

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

59%Socioeconomic
4%Household composition
64%Racial/ethnic minority
73%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

4%Grade A
0%Grade B
35%Grade C
15%Grade D · redlined

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

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)

2,635Total filings over 11 yrs
32.23%Avg annual filing rate
60.1%Peak (2006)
129Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2005 to 2017

Filings dropped 69% over the past 11 months.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

11.5%Housing insecurity
7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
13.2%Food insecurity
10.4%SNAP enrollment
7.9%Transit barriers
9.2%No health insurance
16.5%Frequent mental distress
25.3%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Walltown

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.

This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.

Average gross rent is $1,161, 23% below the Durham average. Against Durham County at 43.8%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Court records carry 2,635 eviction filings across 11 observed years. Against the Durham County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points. The worst year on record was 2006, when 60.1% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 32.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $58,680.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 37063000301

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37063000301?

Census tract 37063000301 in the Walltown neighborhood scores 4.7/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 37063000301?

Median gross rent is $1,161/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 37063000301?

12.5% of residents in tract 37063000301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,917.

How socially vulnerable is tract 37063000301?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 47th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 4th, minority 64th, housing 73th.

Is tract 37063000301 considered part of Walltown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37063000301 fall within Walltown (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37063000301?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,635 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37063000301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 32.23% of renter households, peaking at 60.1% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 37063000301 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 37063000301 compare to Durham overall?

Tract 37063000301 scores 4.7/10, higher than the parent city of Durham at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Durham eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 37063000301 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 15% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Durham

Top eight tracts in Durham ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org