Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Harbor Lights Eviction Risk: Lower , Surfside Beach
Tract 45051051201 · Horry County, SC · pop 1,735 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
45051051201 is a census tract in the Harbor Lights area of Surfside Beach, SC. It scores 3.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,735. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units833
Renter share30.9%
SVI overall0.17
Poverty rate7.5%
Median income$85,181
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
32
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Surfside Beach and the region
Centroid at 33.6146, -78.9707 · click any tract to drill in
Why Harbor Lights scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Surfside Beach
4.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.3
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
7.5% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,761 rent vs county FMR
7.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Surfside Beach
6.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Surfside Beach
7.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Surfside Beach
5.9
How Harbor Lights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 17
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 15%Housing & transportation
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 95Total filings over 5 yrs
- 10.11%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.2%Peak (2012)
- 19Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 27% over the past 5 months.
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.
- 6.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.0%Food insecurity
- 4.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 13.2%Frequent mental distress
- 28.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Harbor Lights
At $1,761 a month, rents run 38% over what the rest of Surfside Beach commands. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.
The voucher gap is 25.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10.
SNAP participation runs 4.0% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 38% here against 44.6% across Horry County.
Food insecurity runs 8.0% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 95 filings here across 5 tracked years. It sits 0.7 points below the Horry County average of 3.8.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 12.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 10.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 45051051201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45051051201?
Census tract 45051051201 in the Harbor Lights neighborhood scores 3.1/10 (Lower 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 45051051201?
Median gross rent is $1,761/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45051051201?
7.5% of residents in tract 45051051201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,735.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45051051201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 17th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 30th, minority 19th, housing 15th.
Q5
Is tract 45051051201 considered part of Harbor Lights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45051051201 fall within Harbor Lights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45051051201?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 95 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45051051201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.11% of renter households, peaking at 12.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45051051201 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.0% 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. 4.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45051051201 compare to Surfside Beach overall?
Tract 45051051201 scores 3.1/10, lower than the parent city of Surfside Beach at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Surfside Beach; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Surfside Beach
Top eight tracts in Surfside Beach ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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