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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Briarcliff Eviction Risk: Lower , Charlotte

Tract 37119002702 · Mecklenburg County, NC · pop 5,849 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

37119002702 is a census tract in the Briarcliff area of Charlotte, NC. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 5,849. 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 4% Stable renters 8% Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units1,921
Renter share12.0%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate1.3%
Median income$250,001

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Briarcliff
Very High
Within parent city
19 th percentile
Rank, 19th percentileLowHigh
#208 of 255 tracts In Charlotte
Very Low
Within county
6 th percentile
Rank, 6th percentileLowHigh
#286 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 35.1823, -80.8380 · click any tract to drill in

Why Briarcliff 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
1.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,787 rent vs county FMR
4.8
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 Briarcliff compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Briarcliff risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0027024.0Charlotteparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 7

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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)

  • 58Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 3.44%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.7%Peak (2005)
  • 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2005 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 37119002702
Filings dropped 18% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Briarcliff. 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 Briarcliff

Cost burden runs 33% here against 45.3% across Mecklenburg County. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Mecklenburg County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

The filing record is not thin: 58 evictions over 4 years of observation. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. At $1,787 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Charlotte commands.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 4.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Charlotte. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 37119002702

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37119002702?

Census tract 37119002702 in the Briarcliff 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 37119002702?

Median gross rent is $1,787/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37119002702?

1.3% of residents in tract 37119002702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,849.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37119002702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 9th, minority 17th, housing 50th.
Q5

Is tract 37119002702 considered part of Briarcliff?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37119002702 fall within Briarcliff (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37119002702?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 58 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 37119002702 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.44% of renter households, peaking at 4.7% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 37119002702 struggle to pay rent?

About 4.4% 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. 2.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 37119002702 compare to Charlotte overall?

Tract 37119002702 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 37119002702 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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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