The Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Durham

Annualized rent equals 60% of average household income of $23,198, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 53%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.4/10.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Durham County average of 43.8%.

At $1,155 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Durham commands. Food insecurity runs 29.9% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points above the Durham County average of 4.1. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 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.