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Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Hays Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 37193960300 · Wilkes County, NC · pop 6,459 · 15% of tract blocks fall in Hays

Census tract 37193960300 covers part of Hays, NC, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,459 residents. Against Wilkes County at 34.8%, 6% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 19% Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units2,305
Renter share20.0%
SVI overall0.55
Poverty rate7.7%
Median income$54,551

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Hays
Moderate
Within county
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#18 of 18 tracts In Wilkes County
Very Low
Within state
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#1,927 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
Low
National
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#67,219 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Hays and the region

Centroid at 36.2293, -81.0822 · click any tract to drill in

Why Hays scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Hays
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.2
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
7.7% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$749 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hays
1.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hays
2.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hays
1.7

How Hays compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Hays risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.03.0This tracttract 960300Hays: 3.13.1Haysparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.14.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 55

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)

  • 465Total filings over 15 yrs
  • 4.55%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.7%Peak (2002)
  • 47Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 371939603002002: 52 filings (10.66/100 renter HHs)2003: 14 filings (2.87/100 renter HHs)2004: 29 filings (5.94/100 renter HHs)2005: 32 filings (3.81/100 renter HHs)2006: 30 filings (3.57/100 renter HHs)2008: 34 filings (4.05/100 renter HHs)2009: 20 filings (2.38/100 renter HHs)2010: 27 filings (4.48/100 renter HHs)2011: 27 filings (3.81/100 renter HHs)2012: 23 filings (3.24/100 renter HHs)2013: 23 filings (3.24/100 renter HHs)2014: 32 filings (4.51/100 renter HHs)2015: 31 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2016: 44 filings (5.50/100 renter HHs)2017: 47 filings (5.88/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Hays

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

Running cool, housing-court posture reads 1.7/10. It sits 0.9 points below the Wilkes County average of 3.9. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 465 filings here across 15 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 10.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 20% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 5.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $54,551, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the NC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 37193960300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37193960300?

Census tract 37193960300 in Hays scores 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 37193960300?

Median gross rent is $749/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 6% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37193960300?

7.7% of residents in tract 37193960300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,459.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37193960300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 55th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 27th, minority 20th, housing 45th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37193960300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 465 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 37193960300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.55% of renter households, peaking at 10.7% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 37193960300 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.6% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 37193960300 compare to Hays overall?

Tract 37193960300 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Hays at 3.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hays; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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