Within parent city
28
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Gastonia Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37071033306 · Gaston County, NC · pop 1,422 · 15% of tract blocks fall in Gastonia
Tract 37071033306 sits in Gastonia eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.3/10. Population here is 1,422. Cost burden runs 20% here against 40.3% across Gaston County.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2%
Stable renters 7%
Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units587
Renter share8.5%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$85,804
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
36
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Gastonia and the region
Centroid at 35.1663, -81.1430 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gastonia scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Gastonia
4.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.6
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$873 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Gastonia
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Gastonia
8.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Gastonia
6.8
How Gastonia compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 25%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 5%Racial/ethnic minority
- 32%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 43Total filings over 11 yrs
- 8.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.8%Peak (2005)
- 3Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.0%Food insecurity
- 6.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 28.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gastonia
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.4/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Average gross rent is $873, 27% below the Gastonia average.
Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.5% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 43 evictions over 11 years of observation.
Against the Gaston County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2005 at 6.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 8.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 37071033306
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37071033306?
Census tract 37071033306 in Gastonia scores 3.3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 37071033306?
Median gross rent is $873/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 20% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37071033306?
8.2% of residents in tract 37071033306 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,422.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37071033306?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 11th, minority 5th, housing 32th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37071033306?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 43 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 37071033306 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.08% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37071033306 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37071033306 compare to Gastonia overall?
Tract 37071033306 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Gastonia at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Gastonia eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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