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Bluford Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Greensboro

Tract 37081012805 · Guilford County, NC · pop 3,095 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Tract 37081012805 sits in the Bluford Heights area of Greensboro eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.4/10. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.

Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 28% Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units1,406
Renter share64.2%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate13.8%
Median income$49,669

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Bluford Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#40 of 82 tracts In Greensboro
Moderate
Within county
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#49 of 126 tracts In Guilford County
Elevated
Within state
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#926 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Greensboro and the region

Centroid at 36.0345, -79.7681 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bluford Heights scores 4.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Greensboro
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
13.8% poverty · this tract
3.4
Supply constraint
$1,169 rent vs county FMR
5.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Greensboro
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Greensboro
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Greensboro
3.5

How Bluford Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bluford Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.4This tracttract 0128053.9Greensboroparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 77

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 362Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 13.59%Avg annual filing rate
  • 25.8%Peak (2016)
  • 178Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2005 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 37081012805
Filings climbed 514% over the past 5 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bluford Heights

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Guilford County average of 44.7%. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Court records carry 362 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 25.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 13.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Guilford 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 37081012805

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37081012805?

Census tract 37081012805 in the Bluford Heights neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (Moderate 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 37081012805?

Median gross rent is $1,169/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37081012805?

13.8% of residents in tract 37081012805 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,095.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37081012805?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 33th, minority 93th, housing 75th.
Q5

Is tract 37081012805 considered part of Bluford Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37081012805 fall within Bluford Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37081012805?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 362 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 37081012805 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.59% of renter households, peaking at 25.8% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 37081012805 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.6% 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. 13.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 37081012805 compare to Greensboro overall?

Tract 37081012805 scores 4.4/10, higher than the parent city of Greensboro at 3.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Greensboro eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Greensboro

Top eight tracts in Greensboro ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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