Dentsville Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. 62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Richland County average of 49.7%. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $37,307, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10. Food insecurity runs 28.0% against 17.8% nationally.

Against the Richland County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Housing insecurity runs 24.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,916 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 45.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 38.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.