Westside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lowell

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. Cost burden runs 34% here against 40.3% across Gaston County.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $974 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Lowell commands. It sits 1.0 points above the Gaston County average of 4.0.

Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $47,026. 26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.