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Neighborhood · Ranked #14,316 of 84,120 nationally

Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Eviction Risk: Moderate , Winston-Salem

Tract 37067000600 · Forsyth County, NC · pop 2,688 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Tract 37067000600 covers Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Home to 2,688 residents, it scores 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #33,539 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

About 40% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $753 a month against an average household income of $34,935 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. About 75% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 45% Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units973
Renter share74.8%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate29.7%
Median income$34,935

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Wake Forest Innovation Quarter
Very Low
Within parent city
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#12 of 65 tracts In Winston-Salem
High
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 95 tracts In Forsyth County
High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#148 of 2,660 tracts In North Carolina
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Winston-Salem and the region

Centroid at 36.1081, -80.2289 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wake Forest Innovation Quarter scores 5.8

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
29.7% poverty · this tract
7.4
Supply constraint
$753 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Wake Forest Innovation Quarter compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wake Forest Innovation Quarter risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 000600Winston-Salem: 3.13.1Winston-Salemparent cityCounty: 4.04.0Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.83.8Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 785Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 24.22%Avg annual filing rate
  • 27.6%Peak (2005)
  • 135Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2005 to 2012
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 370670006002005: 234 filings (27.63/100 renter HHs)2006: 232 filings (27.39/100 renter HHs)2010: 184 filings (24.93/100 renter HHs)2012: 135 filings (16.94/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 42% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. 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 Wake Forest Innovation Quarter

What moves this score most is economic stress at 7.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Winston-Salem eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Forsyth County average of 5.5 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

In CDC survey modeling, about 32.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 25.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 99th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 37067000600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 37067000600?

Census tract 37067000600 in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 37067000600?

Median gross rent is $753/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 37067000600?

29.7% of residents in tract 37067000600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,688.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 37067000600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 89th, minority 99th, housing 94th.
Q5

Is tract 37067000600 considered part of Wake Forest Innovation Quarter?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 37067000600 fall within Wake Forest Innovation Quarter (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 37067000600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 785 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 37067000600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 24.22% of renter households, peaking at 27.6% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 37067000600 struggle to pay rent?

About 32.2% 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. 25.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 37067000600 compare to Winston-Salem overall?

Tract 37067000600 scores 5.8/10, higher than the parent city of Winston-Salem at 3.1/10. 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.
Q9

Was tract 37067000600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 78% 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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