Within parent city
81
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Rocky Mount Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37065020400 · Edgecombe County, NC · pop 4,533 · 97% of tract blocks fall in Rocky Mount
Census tract 37065020400 covers part of Rocky Mount, NC, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,939
Renter share63.8%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate31.1%
Median income$41,780
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
85
th percentile
High
Within state
70
th percentile
Elevated
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Rocky Mount and the region
Centroid at 35.9538, -77.7552 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rocky Mount scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Rocky Mount
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
31.1% poverty · this tract
7.8
Supply constraint
$853 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Rocky Mount
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Rocky Mount
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Rocky Mount
3.5
How Rocky Mount compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%Housing & transportation
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)
- 4,839Total filings over 7 yrs
- 63.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 93.7%Peak (2002)
- 507Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 46% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 26.1%Housing insecurity
- 20.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.0%Food insecurity
- 35.4%SNAP enrollment
- 17.6%Transit barriers
- 13.4%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 42.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Rocky Mount
Cost burden runs 27% here against 41.8% across Edgecombe County. SNAP participation runs 35.4% against 15.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Food insecurity runs 35.0% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running hot, economic stress reads 7.8/10. The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The filing record is not thin: 4,839 evictions over 7 years of observation.
At $853 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Rocky Mount commands. Filings peaked in 2002 at 93.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 63.8% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37065020400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37065020400?
Census tract 37065020400 in Rocky Mount scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 37065020400?
Median gross rent is $853/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 27% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37065020400?
31.1% of residents in tract 37065020400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,533.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37065020400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 93th, minority 95th, housing 30th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37065020400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 4,839 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 37065020400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 63.84% of renter households, peaking at 93.7% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37065020400 struggle to pay rent?
About 26.1% 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. 20.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37065020400 compare to Rocky Mount overall?
Tract 37065020400 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Rocky Mount at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Rocky Mount eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Rocky Mount
Top eight tracts in Rocky Mount ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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/ 10 · Moderate
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4.8
/ 10 · Moderate
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37127010200
4.7
/ 10 · Moderate
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37065020600
4.6
/ 10 · Moderate
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37127010700
4.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.3
/ 10 · Moderate
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4
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · NC
37065020200
3.9
/ 10 · Low
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