Halsey Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 28 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $1,978, 15% above the Charleston average. Cost burden runs 42% here against 45.9% across Charleston County.

Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 2.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Charleston County average of 3.7 closely.

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