Gateway Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte
Tract 37119000503 · Mecklenburg County, NC · pop 1,500 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Eviction risk in the Gateway area of Charlotte centers on tract 37119000503, which scores $1/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 1,500 residents. On the national scale it ranks #52,057 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
26% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a moderate level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $388 a month against an average household income of $72,155 a year, roughly 6% of income at the averages. Renters make up 53% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Charlotte and the region
Centroid at 35.2339, -80.8381 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gateway scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Gateway compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 52%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 58%Grade C
- 42%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Gateway. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.3%Housing insecurity
- 8.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.5%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 29.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Gateway
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 4.5/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Charlotte eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Mecklenburg County average of 5.5 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 42% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
In CDC survey modeling, about 12.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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