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Village West Eviction Risk: Moderate , Travelers Rest

Tract 45045003906 · Greenville County, SC · pop 2,865 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 45045003906 in the Village West area of Travelers Rest, SC reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,865. Severe burden reaches 40%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34% Stable renters 8% Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units996
Renter share42.6%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate31.8%
Median income$48,710

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Village West
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In Travelers Rest
Very High
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#11 of 123 tracts In Greenville County
Very High
Within state
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#93 of 1,317 tracts In South Carolina
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Travelers Rest and the region

Centroid at 34.9600, -82.4450 · click any tract to drill in

Why Village West scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Travelers Rest
4.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.1
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
31.8% poverty · this tract
8.0
Supply constraint
$783 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Travelers Rest
8.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Travelers Rest
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Travelers Rest
8.5

How Village West compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Village West risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0039064.0Travelers Restparent city4.1Countyavg tract in county4.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 83

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)

  • 269Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 10.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.38×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2025-10-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Greenville, SC as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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 Village West

80% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Greenville County average of 45.8%. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $783 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Travelers Rest commands.

It sits 1.3 points above the Greenville County average of 4.1. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $48,710.

43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 45045003906

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45045003906?

Census tract 45045003906 in the Village West neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 45045003906?

Median gross rent is $783/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 80% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 45045003906?

31.8% of residents in tract 45045003906 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,865.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 45045003906?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 66th, household 97th, minority 52th, housing 77th.
Q5

Is tract 45045003906 considered part of Village West?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45045003906 fall within Village West (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 45045003906 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.38× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Greenville eviction risk, SC), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 45045003906 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.8% 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. 10.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 45045003906 compare to Travelers Rest overall?

Tract 45045003906 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Travelers Rest at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Travelers Rest; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Travelers Rest

Top eight tracts in Travelers Rest ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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