Gastonia Eviction Risk: Moderate

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Set annual rent against average income of $43,623 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Housing insecurity runs 29.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Against Gaston County at 40.3%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

Against the Gaston County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 20.4% against 11.3% nationally. Court records carry 1,562 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 21.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 21.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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