Within parent city
13
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Pleasant Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 45019004616 · Charleston County, SC · pop 8,375 · 88% of tract blocks fall in Mount Pleasant
With a score of 3/10, tract 45019004616 in Mount Pleasant, SC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 48%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 4%
Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units3,406
Renter share9.7%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate2.5%
Median income$99,316
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
6
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 32.9129, -79.8043 · 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
2.5% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,010 rent vs county FMR
6.0
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: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 67%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 56Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.40×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.
- 4.8%Housing insecurity
- 3.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.2%Food insecurity
- 2.3%SNAP enrollment
- 3.4%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 11.1%Frequent mental distress
- 20.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Pleasant
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.
Cost burden runs 57% here against 45.9% across Charleston County. SNAP participation runs 2.3% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Charleston County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
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 45019004616
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019004616?
Census tract 45019004616 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 45019004616?
Median gross rent is $2,010/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45019004616?
2.5% of residents in tract 45019004616 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,375.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45019004616?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 67th, minority 23th, housing 20th.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 45019004616 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.40× 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.
Q6
What share of households in tract 45019004616 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.8% 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. 3.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45019004616 compare to Mount Pleasant overall?
Tract 45019004616 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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