Swansea Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Lexington County average of 3.9. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 346 filings here across 5 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 26.1% against 17.8% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 31.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 26.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, 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.