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Census Tract · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally

Winston-Salem Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 37067001500 · Forsyth County, NC · pop 4,508

Tract 37067001500 sits in Winston-Salem eviction risk, NC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5/10. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20% Stable renters 28% Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,524
Renter share48.4%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate31.0%
Median income$44,937

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 65 tracts In Winston-Salem
High
Within county
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 95 tracts In Forsyth County
Very High
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#538 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
High
National
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#32,842 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Winston-Salem and the region

Centroid at 36.1526, -80.2392 · click any tract to drill in

Why Winston-Salem scores 5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Winston-Salem
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
North Carolina legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
31.0% poverty · this tract
7.7
Supply constraint
$932 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Winston-Salem
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Winston-Salem
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Winston-Salem
3.5

How Winston-Salem compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Winston-Salem risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.0This tracttract 0015003.6Winston-Salemparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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)

  • 1,012Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 35.92%Avg annual filing rate
  • 42.1%Peak (2010)
  • 202Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2005 to 2012
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 37067001500
Filings dropped 22% over the past 4 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 Winston-Salem

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.5/10. SNAP participation runs 34.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.7% against 11.3% nationally.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Forsyth County average of 3.9.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,012 filings here across 4 tracked years. At $932 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Winston-Salem commands. Filings peaked in 2010 at 42.1% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 35.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 37067001500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37067001500?

Census tract 37067001500 in Winston-Salem scores 5/10 (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 37067001500?

Median gross rent is $932/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37067001500?

31.0% of residents in tract 37067001500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,508.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37067001500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 91th, household 95th, minority 86th, housing 83th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37067001500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,012 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 37067001500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 35.92% of renter households, peaking at 42.1% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 37067001500 struggle to pay rent?

About 28.1% 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. 19.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 37067001500 compare to Winston-Salem overall?

Tract 37067001500 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Winston-Salem at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Winston-Salem eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 37067001500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Winston-Salem

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

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