Dorchester Crossing Eviction Risk: Lower , Summerville

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. At $1,243 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Summerville commands.

SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Dorchester County average of 43.4%.

The filing record is not thin: 2,257 evictions over 6 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 40.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 33.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10.

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.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Dorchester County average of 3.5 closely.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $56,454.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.