Idlewild Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte
Tract 37119001920 · Mecklenburg County, NC · pop 5,388 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 37119001920 (the Idlewild area of Charlotte, North Carolina) comes in at 5.9/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #24,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
53% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,476 a month against an average household income of $80,547 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Charlotte and the region
Centroid at 35.1790, -80.7422 · click any tract to drill in
Why Idlewild scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Idlewild compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
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)
- 833Total filings over 4 yrs
- 29.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 28.7%Peak (2014)
- 189Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Idlewild. 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.
- 21.6%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.5%Food insecurity
- 21.3%SNAP enrollment
- 13.4%Transit barriers
- 19.9%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 34.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Idlewild
What moves this score most is economic stress at 4.8/10. 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 above the Mecklenburg County average of 5.5 and above the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and Black and ranks around the 89th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 21.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.6% 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.
About tract 37119001920
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