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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Creekside Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Mount Pleasant

Tract 45019004702 · Charleston County, SC · pop 1,896 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 45019004702 sits in the Creekside Park area of Mount Pleasant eviction risk, SC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12% Stable renters 23% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units939
Renter share35.0%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate8.5%
Median income$107,292

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Creekside Park
Very Low
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 16 tracts In Mount Pleasant
Elevated
Within county
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#60 of 98 tracts In Charleston County
Low
Within state
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#932 of 1,317 tracts In South Carolina
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Mount Pleasant and the region

Centroid at 32.8007, -79.8636 · click any tract to drill in

Why Creekside Park scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Mount Pleasant
2.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
8.5% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,242 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Mount Pleasant
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Mount Pleasant
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Mount Pleasant
2.0

How Creekside Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Creekside Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0047023.2Mount Pleasantparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county4.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 20

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 84Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 5.18%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.2%Peak (2012)
  • 20Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2012 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 45019004702
Filings dropped 20% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 64Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.60×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Charleston, SC as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Creekside Park. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Creekside Park

At $1,242 a month, rents run 42% under what the rest of Mount Pleasant commands. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 45.9% across Charleston County.

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. SNAP participation runs 3.7% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 7.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 84 filings here across 4 tracked years. Against the Charleston County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 6.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 45019004702

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019004702?

Census tract 45019004702 in the Creekside Park neighborhood 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 average rent in tract 45019004702?

Median gross rent is $1,242/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 45019004702?

8.5% of residents in tract 45019004702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,896.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 45019004702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 10th, minority 18th, housing 44th.
Q5

Is tract 45019004702 considered part of Creekside Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45019004702 fall within Creekside Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45019004702?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 84 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 45019004702 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.18% of renter households, peaking at 6.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 45019004702 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.60× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Charleston eviction risk, SC), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 45019004702 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.2% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 45019004702 compare to Mount Pleasant overall?

Tract 45019004702 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Mount Pleasant at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mount Pleasant eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Mount Pleasant

Top eight tracts in Mount Pleasant ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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