Idlewild Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charlotte
Tract 37119005716 · Mecklenburg County, NC · pop 5,535 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
In the Idlewild neighborhood of Charlotte, census tract 37119005716 scores 5.8/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 50% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 20% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,547 a month against an average household income of $71,371 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 26% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Charlotte and the region
Centroid at 35.1674, -80.7199 · click any tract to drill in
Why Idlewild scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Idlewild compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%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)
- 175Total filings over 4 yrs
- 15.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 22.2%Peak (2014)
- 38Filings 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.
- 16.3%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.2%Food insecurity
- 15.4%SNAP enrollment
- 10.3%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 17.3%Frequent mental distress
- 31.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Idlewild
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 4.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. 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 about the same as 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 16.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 46th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37119005716
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Top eight tracts in Charlotte ranked by composite eviction-risk score.