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

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Disability prevalence runs 49.1% against 31.5% nationally. 75% 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.

At $753 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Winston-Salem commands. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Forsyth County average of 3.9. The filing record is not thin: 785 evictions over 4 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 27.6% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 24.2% 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.