Irmo Eviction Risk: Lower

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. The voucher gap is 31.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Richland County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.

SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,703 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Irmo commands. The filing record is not thin: 131 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2014, when 24.0% of renter households were served.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.