Fuller Court Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bluffton

At $1,515 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Bluffton 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. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,244 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 20.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 14.8% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Beaufort County average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $75,736.

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.