The Waters Edge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Augusta

89% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Housing insecurity runs 33.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.2/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 42% here against 51.1% across Richmond County.

At $849 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Augusta commands. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.8% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 899 filings here across 9 tracked years.

Against the Richmond County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2006 at 47.5% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Augusta. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.