Gastonia Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Gaston County average of 40.3%. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.

The filing record is not thin: 727 evictions over 12 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 25.1% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 22.2% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points above the Gaston County average of 4.0. Filings peaked in 2005 at 24.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 15.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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.