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Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Mount Pleasant Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 45019004618 · Charleston County, SC · pop 7,141 · 70% of tract blocks fall in Mount Pleasant

With a score of 3/10, tract 45019004618 in Mount Pleasant, SC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 40%. 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 14% Stable renters 5% Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units2,451
Renter share18.8%
SVI overall0.16
Poverty rate4.0%
Median income$122,898

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#2 of 16 tracts In Mount Pleasant
Very High
Within county
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#90 of 98 tracts In Charleston County
Very Low
Within state
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#932 of 1,317 tracts In South Carolina
Low
National
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#67,219 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Mount Pleasant and the region

Centroid at 32.8713, -79.8002 · click any tract to drill in

Why Mount Pleasant 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
4.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,344 rent vs county FMR
7.9
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.
Mount Pleasant risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0046183.2Mount Pleasantparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county4.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 16

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 168Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 7.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.29×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

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 Mount Pleasant

Against Charleston County at 45.9%, 73% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

The voucher gap is 28.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 7.4% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 7.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Against the Charleston County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. At $2,344 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Mount Pleasant commands. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 19% 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 2.4/10, 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 housing type and transport 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 45019004618

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019004618?

Census tract 45019004618 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 45019004618?

Median gross rent is $2,344/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 73% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 45019004618?

4.0% of residents in tract 45019004618 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,141.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 45019004618?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 14th, minority 29th, housing 15th.
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 45019004618 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.29× 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 45019004618 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 45019004618 compare to Mount Pleasant overall?

Tract 45019004618 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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