Beaufort Eviction Risk: Moderate

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Beaufort County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Housing insecurity runs 26.5% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Cost burden runs 39% here against 45.1% across Beaufort County. Average gross rent is $1,020, 16% below the Beaufort average.

Court records carry 650 eviction filings across 5 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 27.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 25.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.