Hickory Forest Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 1.7/10. Cost burden runs 24% against 30.8% citywide, putting Hickory Forest 6.7% under its own city. Severe burden reaches 14%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

SNAP participation is 2.6% of households versus 15.2% nationally. 2.7% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Court records for this tract carry 30 eviction filings.

Filing activity peaked in 2012 at 3.1% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 3.1% in 2014 against a 3.1% peak. That places it #7 of 11 neighborhoods in Hilton Head Island.

At 4% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. For a like-for-like read, Shelter Cove and Forest Beach score within a fraction of it.

Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.