St. Stephen Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs roughly one in four here against 37.8% across Berkeley County. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 9/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Average gross rent is $789, 31% below the St. Stephen average.

Food insecurity runs 35.0% against 17.8% nationally. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $27,418, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Housing insecurity runs 22.8% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 220 filings here across 5 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the Berkeley County average of 3.8.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 16.1% of renter households.

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.