West Ashley Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Average gross rent is $1,355, 21% below the Charleston average. Court records carry 4,277 eviction filings across 4 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 72.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 59.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Charleston County average of 3.7 closely.

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.