Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 49%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Food insecurity affects 49.5% of adults, 31.7 points above the national rate.

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.3/10. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. The severe-burden share is 28%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.

83% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. Well under the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.

At $745 a month, rents sit 31% under what the rest of Winston-Salem commands. Running cool is supply constraint, at 1.4/10. Filings are well documented here: 3,055 across 4 observed tracts.

19.2% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The worst year on record was 2012, when filings touched 82.5% of renter households.

With little internal variation, 5/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.