Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #69,776 of 84,120 nationally
Mills River Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37089930702 · Henderson County, NC · pop 4,650 · 63% of tract blocks fall in Mills River
Census tract 37089930702 runs through Mills River. With 4,650 residents, it scores 3.9/10 for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 10% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 32% of renter households, a high level, and 8% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,081 monthly, set against $84,145 in average yearly household income, roughly 15% of income at the averages. Renters make up 18% of occupied homes.
Risk score
2.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,705
Renter share18.2%
SVI overall0.28
Poverty rate5.3%
Median income$84,145
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
15
th percentile
Very Low
National
17
th percentile
Very Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mills River and the region
Centroid at 35.3737, -82.6145 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mills River scores 2.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Mills River
4.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.1
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
5.3% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,081 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Mills River
2.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Mills River
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Mills River
2.3
How Mills River compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 23%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%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)
- 106Total filings over 15 yrs
- 3.03%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2002)
- 9Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 25% over the past 15 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
- 5.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.5%Food insecurity
- 7.1%SNAP enrollment
- 5.6%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mills River
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 3.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Mills River, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Henderson County average of 4.8 and below the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 7.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 28th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
Frequently asked
About tract 37089930702
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37089930702?
Census tract 37089930702 in Mills River scores 2.3/10 (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 37089930702?
Median gross rent is $1,081/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37089930702?
5.3% of residents in tract 37089930702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,650.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37089930702?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 28th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 53th, household 23th, minority 15th, housing 21th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37089930702?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 106 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 37089930702 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.03% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37089930702 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37089930702 compare to Mills River overall?
Tract 37089930702 scores 2.3/10, right in line with the parent city of Mills River at 2.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mills River; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Mills River
Top eight tracts in Mills River ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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