Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
James Island Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 45019002007 · Charleston County, SC · pop 3,556 · 52% of tract blocks fall in James Island
With a score of 3/10, tract 45019002007 in James Island, SC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 98%
Tract context
Occupied units1,134
Renter share1.6%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate2.6%
Median income$163,043
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across James Island and the region
Centroid at 32.7538, -79.9174 · click any tract to drill in
Why James Island scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from James Island
6.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
2.6% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from James Island
4.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from James Island
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from James Island
4.0
How James Island compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 1
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 4%Racial/ethnic minority
- 6%Housing & transportation
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)
- 19Total filings over 4 yrs
- 3.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2012)
- 2Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 78% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 13Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Charleston, SC as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 5.2%Housing insecurity
- 3.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.8%Food insecurity
- 2.8%SNAP enrollment
- 3.6%Transit barriers
- 6.1%No health insurance
- 11.5%Frequent mental distress
- 21.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in James Island
Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.
SNAP participation runs 2.8% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 5.8% against 17.8% nationally.
Court records carry 19 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 45.9% across Charleston County.
Against the Charleston County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 2% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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 45019002007
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019002007?
Census tract 45019002007 in James Island 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 poverty rate in tract 45019002007?
2.6% of residents in tract 45019002007 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,556.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 45019002007?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 16th, minority 4th, housing 6th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45019002007?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 19 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 45019002007 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.05% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 45019002007 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Charleston eviction risk, SC), 2020-2021.
Q6
What share of households in tract 45019002007 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.2% 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. 3.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45019002007 compare to James Island overall?
Tract 45019002007 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of James Island at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from James 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 James Island
Top eight tracts in James Island ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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