Wrightsville Beach Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.9/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 4.4% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

The voucher gap is 19.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $1,892 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Wrightsville Beach commands.

It sits 1.0 points below the New Hanover County average of 4.0. Court records carry 100 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2005 at 4.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.8% 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.