Rocky Mount Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 72% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for around a third of renters.

It tracks the Nash County average of 3.7 closely. Average gross rent is $976, close to the Rocky Mount average. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $48,924.

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