Wessex Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1/10. 34% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, ahead of the Cary rate of 24.9%.

Food insecurity affects 5.5% of adults, 12.3 points below the national rate. The filing record is not thin: 175 evictions logged in this tract.

Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,478, 15% below the Cary average of $1,738.

10% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Filing activity peaked in 2015 at 7.4% of renter households.

4.8% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Recent filings have not receded much: 5.5% in 2016 against a 7.4% peak. That places it #11 of 39 neighborhoods in Cary.

For a like-for-like read, Wellsley and Preston Oaks score within a fraction of it. Against average income of $99,741, annual rent is only 18%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

One tract means one number: 3/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.