Census Tract · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally

Beaufort Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 45013000400 · Beaufort County, SC · pop 1,182 · 78% of tract blocks fall in Beaufort

Census tract 45013000400 covers part of Beaufort, SC, and scores 5.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,182 residents. The severe-burden share is 100%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score

5.5

Moderate

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 57% Stable renters 0% Owners 43%

Tract context

Occupied units7

Renter share57.1%

SVI overall0.03

Poverty rate50.0%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Beaufort and the region

Centroid at 32.4742, -80.7129 · click any tract to drill in

Why Beaufort scores 5.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Beaufort

5.1

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

4.5

State political climate

South Carolina legislature & governorship

2.1

Economic stress

50.0% poverty · this tract

10.0

Supply constraint

tract rent vs county FMR

5.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from Beaufort

7.8

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

1.6

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Beaufort

8.3

Housing court bias

Inherited from Beaufort

7.7

How Beaufort compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 3

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

8%Socioeconomic
2%Household composition
69%Racial/ethnic minority
8%Housing & transportation

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

16.1%Housing insecurity
9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
26.7%Food insecurity
11.5%SNAP enrollment
16.4%Transit barriers
21.4%No health insurance
22.2%Frequent mental distress
31.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Beaufort

Cost burden runs 100% here against 45.1% across Beaufort County. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Beaufort County average of 4.0.

Adults with no health insurance runs 21.4% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 26.7% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 1.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 57% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 45013000400

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45013000400?

Census tract 45013000400 in Beaufort scores 5.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the poverty rate in tract 45013000400?

50.0% of residents in tract 45013000400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,182.

How socially vulnerable is tract 45013000400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 2th, minority 69th, housing 8th.

What share of households in tract 45013000400 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 45013000400 compare to Beaufort overall?

Tract 45013000400 scores 5.5/10, higher than the parent city of Beaufort at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Beaufort eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Beaufort

Top eight tracts in Beaufort ranked by composite eviction-risk score.