Bessemer City Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37071030801 · Gaston County, NC · pop 1,748 · 43% of tract blocks fall in Bessemer City
The Moderate-tier score of 5.1/10 for census tract 37071030801 reflects conditions in Bessemer City, North Carolina. On the national scale it ranks #49,066 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 62% of renter households, a severe level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,250 monthly, set against $60,221 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 10% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bessemer City and the region
Centroid at 35.2832, -81.3231 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bessemer City scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bessemer City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 25%Household composition
- 12%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%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)
- 106Total filings over 12 yrs
- 6.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.6%Peak (2006)
- 10Filings in 2017 (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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 8.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.4%Food insecurity
- 13.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 35.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bessemer City
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 3.1/10. 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 Bessemer City, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Gaston County average of 5.5 and in line with 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 12.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 36th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37071030801
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37071030801?
What is the average rent in tract 37071030801?
What is the poverty rate in tract 37071030801?
How socially vulnerable is tract 37071030801?
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37071030801?
What share of households in tract 37071030801 struggle to pay rent?
How does tract 37071030801 compare to Bessemer City overall?
Highest-risk tracts in Bessemer City
Top eight tracts in Bessemer City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.