Oakland Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Myrtle Beach
Tract 45051050401 · Horry County, SC · pop 3,250 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 45051050401 covers the Oakland Heights area of Myrtle Beach, home to 3,250 residents. For landlords it grades 5.2/10, a moderate reading. On the national scale it ranks #46,498 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 62% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 45% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,121 a month against an average household income of $41,536 a year, roughly 32% of income at the averages. About 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Myrtle Beach and the region
Centroid at 33.7439, -78.8293 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oakland Heights scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Oakland Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%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)
- 390Total filings over 5 yrs
- 10.03%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.7%Peak (2014)
- 92Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.8%Housing insecurity
- 11.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.8%Food insecurity
- 15.6%SNAP enrollment
- 10.9%Transit barriers
- 16.2%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 35.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Oakland Heights
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.7/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Myrtle Beach 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 Horry County average of 5.3 and in line with the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 70th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 390 eviction filings here over 5 tracked years, with about 10.0% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 11.7% of renter households in 2014.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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