Meredith Townes Eviction Risk: Lower , Raleigh
Tract 37183052504 · Wake County, NC · pop 6,678 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
How risky is Meredith Townes in Raleigh for landlords? Census tract 37183052504 scores 5.6/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 60th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 52% of renter households, a severe level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,456 a month while the average household earns $78,300 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 55% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Raleigh and the region
Centroid at 35.8231, -78.6951 · click any tract to drill in
Why Meredith Townes scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Meredith Townes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 47
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 27%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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)
- 283Total filings over 2 yrs
- 10.67%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.9%Peak (2015)
- 137Filings 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.
- 6.3%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.4%Food insecurity
- 4.2%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 5.8%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 21.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Meredith Townes
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 5.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Raleigh 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 Wake County average of 5.3 and in line with the North Carolina statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 47th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 283 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 10.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 12.9% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 37183052504
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