Wilmington Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 37129011300 · New Hanover County, NC · pop 2,163 · 95% of tract blocks fall in Wilmington
Tract 37129011300 sits in Wilmington eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wilmington and the region
Centroid at 34.2271, -77.9497 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wilmington scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wilmington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%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)
- 522Total filings over 12 yrs
- 5.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.7%Peak (2006)
- 29Filings in 2018 (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.
- 8.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 9.3%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 29.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wilmington
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 73% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. At $1,625 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Wilmington commands. Court records carry 522 eviction filings across 12 observed years.
Against New Hanover County at 48.2%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2006, when 12.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 37129011300
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Highest-risk tracts in Wilmington
Top eight tracts in Wilmington ranked by composite eviction-risk score.