Corey Wood Eviction Risk: Lower , Summerville

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

Against Dorchester County at 43.4%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 1,252 evictions over 6 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2012 at 51.2% of renter households. At $1,398 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Summerville commands.

In a typical year about 45.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 18% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $120,034, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.