Washington Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $351, 68% below the Spartanburg average of $1,099. The strongest single driver of the headline number is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 74%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

97% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. Cost burden runs 44% against 32.3% citywide, putting Washington Heights 11.2% over its own city. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Well under the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. Running cool is supply constraint, at 1/10. 23% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

26.7% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Court records for this tract carry 308 eviction filings.

The worst year on record was 2010, when filings touched 64.7% of renter households. That places it #1 of 15 neighborhoods in Spartanburg.

One tract means one number: 4.8/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.