Three Points Eviction Risk: Lower , Columbia

The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

It sits 1.1 points below the Richland County average of 4.2. SNAP participation runs 6.5% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 248 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

At $1,368 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Columbia commands. The worst year on record was 2010, when 13.5% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Columbia. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 12.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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