Lake Forest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against Mecklenburg County at 45.3%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Housing insecurity runs 30.9% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $49,792, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10.

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $1,328 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Charlotte commands. Against the Mecklenburg County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10.

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.