Columbia Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 45079011000 · Richland County, SC · pop 1,561 · 90% of tract blocks fall in Columbia
Tract 45079011000, home to 1,561 residents in Columbia, scores 5.7/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 50% of renter households, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,125 monthly, set against $47,778 in average yearly household income, roughly 28% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbia and the region
Centroid at 34.0427, -81.0051 · click any tract to drill in
Why Columbia scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Columbia compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 445Total filings over 5 yrs
- 34.07%Avg annual filing rate
- 42.4%Peak (2011)
- 100Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 22.0%Housing insecurity
- 14.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.2%Food insecurity
- 19.3%SNAP enrollment
- 12.8%Transit barriers
- 13.7%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 37.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Columbia
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.1/10. 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 22.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 75th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Columbia
Top eight tracts in Columbia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.