Farrowoods Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbia
Tract 45079011421 · Richland County, SC · pop 4,497 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
The Farrowoods area of Columbia is where census tract 45079011421 sits, home to 4,497 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.7/10. That is riskier than about 63% of US census tracts.
53% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 25% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,247 monthly, set against $55,968 in average yearly household income, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 48% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbia and the region
Centroid at 34.1134, -80.9599 · click any tract to drill in
Why Farrowoods scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Farrowoods compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 67
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Farrowoods. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 17.9%Housing insecurity
- 12.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.0%Food insecurity
- 12.3%SNAP enrollment
- 10.1%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Farrowoods
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 4.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Columbia eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Richland County average of 5.8 and in line with the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 17.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 12.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 67th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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