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

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 49.5% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 45.0% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 49%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. At $673 a month, rents run 38% under what the rest of Winston-Salem commands.

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 81% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Forsyth County average of 3.9. Court records carry 1,777 eviction filings across 4 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2005 at 82.5% 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 63.2% of renter households face a filing.

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