Ninety Six Eviction Risk: Lower

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.

Court records carry 452 eviction filings across 5 observed years. It sits 0.7 points below the Greenwood County average of 4.1. The worst year on record was 2014, when 22.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 16.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 38% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $873, close to the Ninety Six average. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $58,107.

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