Downtown Gastonia Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

Against Gaston County at 40.3%, 47% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Gaston County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Average gross rent is $1,007, 16% below the Gastonia average. Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $39,543.

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