The Grey Eviction Risk: Moderate , Raleigh

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9/10. At $1,027 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Raleigh commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Cost burden runs 54% here against 42.7% across Wake County. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $36,339 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Against the Wake County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. SNAP participation runs 28.4% against 15.2% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 200 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2016 at 14.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 15.6% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.