Belmont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbia

Against Richland County at 49.7%, 84% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.8/10.

Food insecurity runs 37.0% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $31,343, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running hot, economic stress reads 8.6/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. At $973 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Columbia commands.

It sits 1.0 points above the Richland County average of 4.2. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 738 filings here across 5 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 44.7% of renter households were served.

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