Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Bethel Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 37147002002 · Pitt County, NC · pop 4,875 · 25% of tract blocks fall in Bethel
Census tract 37147002002 covers part of Bethel, NC, and scores 3.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.4/10.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units1,880
Renter share28.3%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate10.7%
Median income$60,097
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
36
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Bethel and the region
Centroid at 35.7475, -77.3735 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bethel scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Bethel
5.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
10.7% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$884 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Bethel
9.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Bethel
7.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Bethel
7.6
How Bethel compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 67%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 74%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
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)
- 419Total filings over 14 yrs
- 6.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.4%Peak (2005)
- 29Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 41% over the past 14 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 16.8%Housing insecurity
- 11.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.9%Food insecurity
- 19.9%SNAP enrollment
- 11.1%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 38.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bethel
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.3/10. It sits 2.1 points below the Pitt County average of 5.4.
At $884 a month, rents run 29% over what the rest of Bethel commands. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10.
Against Pitt County at 39.3%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 419 filings here across 14 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2005, when 12.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 37147002002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37147002002?
Census tract 37147002002 in Bethel scores 3.3/10 (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 37147002002?
Median gross rent is $884/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 37147002002?
10.7% of residents in tract 37147002002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,875.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 37147002002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 82th, minority 74th, housing 81th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37147002002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 419 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 37147002002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.23% of renter households, peaking at 12.4% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 37147002002 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.8% 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. 11.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 37147002002 compare to Bethel overall?
Tract 37147002002 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Bethel at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Bethel; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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