Within parent city
34
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Gastonia Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37071033311 · Gaston County, NC · pop 727 · 20% of tract blocks fall in Gastonia
Census tract 37071033311 covers part of Gastonia, NC, and scores 3.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 42%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 85%
Tract context
Occupied units323
Renter share14.9%
SVI overall0.21
Poverty rate10.5%
Median income$89,688
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
45
th percentile
Moderate
National
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Gastonia and the region
Centroid at 35.1932, -81.1140 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gastonia scores 3.6
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
10.5% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 52%Socioeconomic
- 25%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 9%Housing & transportation
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.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.0%Food insecurity
- 8.2%SNAP enrollment
- 6.5%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 30.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gastonia
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.
SNAP participation runs 8.2% against 15.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 15% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.9/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Gaston County average of 4.0 closely.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 37071033311
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37071033311?
Census tract 37071033311 in Gastonia scores 3.6/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 37071033311?
10.5% of residents in tract 37071033311 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 727.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 37071033311?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 21th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 25th, minority 15th, housing 9th.
Q4
What share of households in tract 37071033311 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.6% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5
How does tract 37071033311 compare to Gastonia overall?
Tract 37071033311 scores 3.6/10, 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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