Columbia Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Against the Richland County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

At $1,401 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Columbia commands. The filing record is not thin: 2,402 evictions over 5 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 58.4% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 44.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

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