Within parent city
60
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Mount Pleasant Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 45019004619 · Charleston County, SC · pop 5,491 · 68% of tract blocks fall in Mount Pleasant
Tract 45019004619 sits in Mount Pleasant eviction risk, SC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,491 residents. Against Charleston County at 45.9%, 18% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units2,804
Renter share38.4%
SVI overall0.19
Poverty rate15.8%
Median income$125,326
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
20
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 32.8154, -79.8388 · 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
15.8% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$2,388 rent vs county FMR
8.1
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: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%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)
- 125Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×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.
- 6.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.0%Food insecurity
- 4.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 13.3%Frequent mental distress
- 23.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mount Pleasant
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The voucher gap is 31.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 8.0% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Against the Charleston County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Average gross rent is $2,388, 11% above the Mount Pleasant average.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, 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 household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $125,326.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 45019004619
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019004619?
Census tract 45019004619 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 45019004619?
Median gross rent is $2,388/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 18% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45019004619?
15.8% of residents in tract 45019004619 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,491.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45019004619?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 19th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 6th, minority 20th, housing 65th.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 45019004619 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.76× 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 45019004619 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.8% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45019004619 compare to Mount Pleasant overall?
Tract 45019004619 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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