Preston Oaks Eviction Risk: Lower , Cary
Tract 37183053523 · Wake County, NC · pop 5,891 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 37183053523 (the Preston Oaks neighborhood of Cary, North Carolina) comes in at 4.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 31% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 41% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 31% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,718 a month against an average household income of $228,750 a year, roughly 9% of income at the averages. About 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Cary and the region
Centroid at 35.7955, -78.8193 · click any tract to drill in
Why Preston Oaks scores 1.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Preston Oaks compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 17
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
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)
- 165Total filings over 2 yrs
- 8.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.8%Peak (2016)
- 101Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.8%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.6%Food insecurity
- 4.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.2%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 12.4%Frequent mental distress
- 19.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Preston Oaks
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 4.7/10. 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 Cary eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Wake County average of 5.3 and below the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is White and Asian and ranks around the 17th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 5.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37183053523
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Highest-risk tracts in Cary
Top eight tracts in Cary ranked by composite eviction-risk score.