Oakland Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Myrtle Beach

Cost burden runs 62% here against 44.6% across Horry County. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.5/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $41,536, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 390 filings here across 5 tracked years. It sits 0.7 points above the Horry County average of 3.8.

At $1,121 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Myrtle Beach commands. Filings peaked in 2014 at 11.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 10.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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