Winston-Salem Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. SNAP participation runs 27.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $859, 21% below the Winston-Salem average. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Against the Forsyth County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Court records carry 701 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2005, when 30.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Winston-Salem. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 23.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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