Rocky Mount Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 48%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.8/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $35,720, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 29.9% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 572 filings here across 7 tracked years.

At $1,075 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Rocky Mount commands. The worst year on record was 2003, when 37.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 31.1% of renter households face a filing.

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