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Midtown Eviction Risk: Lower , Charlotte

Tract 37119002500 · Mecklenburg County, NC · pop 2,335 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 37119002500 in the Midtown area of Charlotte, NC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.5/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 49% Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units1,547
Renter share71.0%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate4.5%
Median income$105,114

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Midtown
Very Low
Within parent city
18 th percentile
Rank, 18th percentileLowHigh
#210 of 255 tracts In Charlotte
Very Low
Within county
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#305 of 305 tracts In Mecklenburg County
Very Low
Within state
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#1,927 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Charlotte and the region

Centroid at 35.2173, -80.8236 · click any tract to drill in

Why Midtown scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Charlotte
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.8
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
4.5% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$1,705 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Charlotte
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Charlotte
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Charlotte
3.5

How Midtown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Midtown risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0025004.0Charlotteparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 9

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

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)

  • 112Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 4.72%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.9%Peak (2014)
  • 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2005 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 37119002500
Filings dropped 63% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Midtown. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Midtown

Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 45.3% across Mecklenburg County. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.1/10. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.2% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Mecklenburg County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

Court records carry 112 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Housing insecurity runs 6.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.9% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 37119002500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37119002500?

Census tract 37119002500 in the Midtown neighborhood scores 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 37119002500?

Median gross rent is $1,705/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37119002500?

4.5% of residents in tract 37119002500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,335.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37119002500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 13th, household 1th, minority 31th, housing 63th.
Q5

Is tract 37119002500 considered part of Midtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37119002500 fall within Midtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37119002500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 112 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 37119002500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.72% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 37119002500 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.4% 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. 4.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 37119002500 compare to Charlotte overall?

Tract 37119002500 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Charlotte at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Charlotte eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 37119002500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 5% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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

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