Riverland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cayce

Against Lexington County at 37.2%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $40,385, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 1.7 points above the Lexington County average of 3.9. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 27.3% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 521 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2010, when 31.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 25.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

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