FUSE Eviction Risk: Moderate , Gastonia

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.4/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Housing insecurity runs 27.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $988 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Gastonia commands. It sits 1.0 points above the Gaston County average of 4.0.

That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $39,135.

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