Greenwood Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 45047970202 · Greenwood County, SC · pop 6,069 · 67% of tract blocks fall in Greenwood
For landlords sizing up Greenwood, census tract 45047970202 carries an elevated eviction-risk score of $1/10. It lands near the 74th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
38% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 20% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $995 a month while the average household earns $49,535 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. About 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Greenwood and the region
Centroid at 34.2209, -82.1547 · click any tract to drill in
Why Greenwood scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Greenwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%Housing & transportation
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,132Total filings over 5 yrs
- 16.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.9%Peak (2014)
- 209Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 9.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.1%Food insecurity
- 10.0%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 17.1%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Greenwood
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.4/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Greenwood eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Greenwood County average of 5.9 and above the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 13.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 38th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in Greenwood
Top eight tracts in Greenwood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.