Rocky Mount Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37127010503 · Nash County, NC · pop 2,225 · 79% of tract blocks fall in Rocky Mount
Tract 37127010503, home to 2,225 residents in Rocky Mount in Nash County, scores 5.1/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 33% of renter households, a high level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,030 a month while the average household earns $74,265 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. About 14% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Rocky Mount and the region
Centroid at 35.9868, -77.8588 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rocky Mount scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Rocky Mount compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 48%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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)
- 204Total filings over 2 yrs
- 56.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 59.0%Peak (2002)
- 97Filings in 2003 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 11.8%Housing insecurity
- 8.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 12.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Rocky Mount
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 4.6/10. 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 Rocky Mount 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 Nash County average of 5.3 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 204 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 56.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 59.0% of renter households in 2002.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.3% 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 37127010503
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Highest-risk tracts in Rocky Mount
Top eight tracts in Rocky Mount ranked by composite eviction-risk score.