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Cotton Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Morrisville

Tract 37183053609 · Wake County, NC · pop 1,699 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Tract 37183053609 sits in the Cotton Place area of Morrisville eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. Population here is 1,699. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10.

Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 46% Owners 19%
Tract context
Occupied units982
Renter share81.1%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate15.5%
Median income$83,444

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Cotton Place
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Morrisville
Very High
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#42 of 230 tracts In Wake County
High
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#367 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Morrisville and the region

Centroid at 35.8408, -78.8175 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cotton Place scores 5.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Morrisville
6.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.3
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
15.5% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$1,704 rent vs county FMR
4.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Morrisville
2.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Morrisville
9.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Morrisville
3.0

How Cotton Place compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cotton Place risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.3This tracttract 0536094.3Morrisvilleparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 57

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 51Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 8.29%Avg annual filing rate
  • 11.4%Peak (2015)
  • 19Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cotton Place

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.3 points above the Wake County average of 4.0. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 51 filings here across 2 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 11.4% of renter households were served.

At $1,704 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Morrisville commands. In a typical year about 8.3% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 37183053609

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37183053609?

Census tract 37183053609 in the Cotton Place neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate 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 37183053609?

Median gross rent is $1,704/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37183053609?

15.5% of residents in tract 37183053609 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,699.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37183053609?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 13th, minority 79th, housing 79th.
Q5

Is tract 37183053609 considered part of Cotton Place?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37183053609 fall within Cotton Place (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37183053609?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 51 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 37183053609 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.29% of renter households, peaking at 11.4% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 37183053609 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.5% 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. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 37183053609 compare to Morrisville overall?

Tract 37183053609 scores 5.3/10, higher than the parent city of Morrisville at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Morrisville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Morrisville

Top eight tracts in Morrisville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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