Forest Oaks Eviction Risk: Lower

The severe-burden share is 23%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2/10.

On the softer side is tenant-organizing strength, at 2/10. Court records for this tract carry 143 eviction filings.

SNAP participation is 5.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 29% against 32.3% citywide, putting Forest Oaks 3.8% under its own city. The worst year on record was 2010, when filings touched 116.3% of renter households.

Average gross rent is $979, 11% below the Spartanburg average of $1,099. Food insecurity affects 9.4% of adults, 8.4 points below the national rate. Among the 15 mapped neighborhoods of Spartanburg, it ranks #11 by risk, the lower third.

Judgments average 25.2% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Only 18% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Rent takes 12% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.