Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Pleasant Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 45019004610 · Charleston County, SC · pop 5,446 · 48% of tract blocks fall in Mount Pleasant
Tract 45019004610 sits in Mount Pleasant eviction risk, SC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 5,446. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units2,178
Renter share12.8%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate4.4%
Median income$140,769
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mount Pleasant and the region
Centroid at 32.8245, -79.7689 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Pleasant scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
4.4% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$2,109 rent vs county FMR
6.6
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 Mount Pleasant compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 11%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 29%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%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)
- 70Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2012)
- 14Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 48% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 57Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.67×Ratio to 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
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.
- 7.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.7%Food insecurity
- 3.9%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 20.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Pleasant
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 34% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Charleston County average of 45.9%.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.1/10. SNAP participation runs 3.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. The voucher gap is 15.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The filing record is not thin: 70 evictions over 4 years of observation.
It sits 0.7 points below the Charleston County average of 3.7. The worst year on record was 2012, when 7.3% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 4.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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 45019004610
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019004610?
Census tract 45019004610 in Mount Pleasant 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 45019004610?
Median gross rent is $2,109/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45019004610?
4.4% of residents in tract 45019004610 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,446.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45019004610?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 34th, minority 29th, housing 22th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45019004610?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 70 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 45019004610 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.76% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 45019004610 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.67× 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.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45019004610 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.0% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45019004610 compare to Mount Pleasant overall?
Tract 45019004610 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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