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Forest Beach Eviction Risk: Lower , Hilton Head Island

Tract 45013011200 · Beaufort County, SC · pop 672 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 45013011200 covers part of the Forest Beach area of Hilton Head Island, SC, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 672. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 11% Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units347
Renter share19.0%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$100,568

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Forest Beach
Moderate
Within parent city
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#9 of 13 tracts In Hilton Head Island
Low
Within county
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#29 of 42 tracts In Beaufort County
Low
Within state
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#932 of 1,317 tracts In South Carolina
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Hilton Head Island and the region

Centroid at 32.1496, -80.7470 · click any tract to drill in

Why Forest Beach scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Hilton Head Island
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,909 rent vs county FMR
5.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hilton Head Island
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hilton Head Island
4.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hilton Head Island
5.7

How Forest Beach compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Forest Beach risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0112003.7Hilton Head Islandparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 20

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

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 42Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 7.47%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.5%Peak (2011)
  • 9Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2014
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 45013011200
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Forest Beach

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. At $1,909 a month, rents run 29% over what the rest of Hilton Head Island commands.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. SNAP participation runs 3.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Beaufort County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 42 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2011, when 9.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 7.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.8/10.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 45013011200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45013011200?

Census tract 45013011200 in the Forest Beach neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 45013011200?

Median gross rent is $1,909/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 45013011200?

4.1% of residents in tract 45013011200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 672.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 45013011200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 5th, minority 0th, housing 63th.
Q5

Is tract 45013011200 considered part of Forest Beach?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45013011200 fall within Forest Beach (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45013011200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 42 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45013011200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.47% of renter households, peaking at 9.5% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 45013011200 struggle to pay rent?

About 4.8% 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. 3.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 45013011200 compare to Hilton Head Island overall?

Tract 45013011200 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Hilton Head Island at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hilton Head Island eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Hilton Head Island

Top eight tracts in Hilton Head Island ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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