This paper considers a class of stochastic systems referred to as stochastic switched systems of neutral type with time-varying delay, which combines switched systems with neutral stochastic systems. The systems consist of subsystems of two forms: (i) only stable subsystems and (ii) both stable subsystems and unstable subsystems. By establishing an integral inequality, the exponential stability in pth .p > 1/-moment for such systems with only stable subsystems is first considered. Then, by using an average dwell time approach, the exponential stability in pth .p > 1/-moment for the second form is addressed. An important finding of this study is that when the average dwell time is chosen to be sufficiently large and the total activation time of unstable subsystems is relatively small compared with that of stable subsystems, the exponential stability in pth .p > 1/-moment for such systems can be guaranteed. Two major advantages of these new results are that the differentiability or continuity of the delay function is not required compared with the existing results in the literature, and the proposed approaches can be used to consider the case when the neutral item and the stochastic perturbation are simultaneously presented. An example is provided to verify the effectiveness and potential of the theoretic results obtained. STOCHASTIC SWITCHED TIME DELAY SYSTEMS 513 dealing with time-varying delay while using the methods proposed in [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Chen et al. in [12,13] have derived an integral inequality to deal with the exponential stability for neutral stochastic systems with time-varying delay and Markovian switching.A switched system is a hybrid dynamical system that is composed of a finite number of subsystems and a logical rule that orchestrates switching between the subsystems [14]. Because switched systems can be employed to describe many practical systems [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], stability analysis and switching control design for such systems have been extensively studied, for example, [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] and the references therein. In [26], Zhai et al. have investigated the stability analysis of switched systems with continuous-time and discrete-time subsystems by using the Lie algebra approach. In [27], by using a Riccati-type Lyapunov functional, the stability analysis for a class of linear switching systems with time delay was conducted. However, in [26,27], the authors only discussed switched systems with stable subsystems, and the unstable subsystems were not dealt with. In fact, in hybrid switched systems, unstable subsystems are ubiquitous [25]. In [28], an average dwell time approach is first introduced to discuss the stability analysis for switched systems with both stable subsystems and unstable subsystems. As pointed out in [14], the average dwell time switching is a class of restricted switching signals which means that the average time between consecutive switching is not less than a constant [25][26...