Meredith Townes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Raleigh

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.5/10. Against Wake County at 42.7%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Court records carry 283 eviction filings across 2 observed years. Housing insecurity runs 6.3% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2015, when 12.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 10.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.