Quicktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Orangeburg

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10.

Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $610 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Orangeburg commands.

Food insecurity runs 28.1% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 68 filings here across 2 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2010, when 19.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 17.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

39% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.