Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Burton Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 45013000502 · Beaufort County, SC · pop 8,516 · 42% of tract blocks fall in Burton
Tract 45013000502 sits in Burton, SC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Cost burden runs 60% here against 45.1% across Beaufort County.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units2,904
Renter share63.9%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate16.5%
Median income$55,851
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
88
th percentile
High
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Burton and the region
Centroid at 32.4178, -80.7337 · click any tract to drill in
Why Burton scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Burton
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
16.5% poverty · this tract
4.1
Supply constraint
$1,302 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Burton
6.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Burton
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Burton
5.9
How Burton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 70%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,732Total filings over 5 yrs
- 27.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 36.7%Peak (2014)
- 476Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 74% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.0%Housing insecurity
- 12.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.2%Food insecurity
- 15.6%SNAP enrollment
- 11.9%Transit barriers
- 15.2%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 30.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Burton
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Against the Beaufort County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.
Court records carry 1,732 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 36.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 27.5% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8/10.
Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
Average gross rent is $1,302, close to the Burton average. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $55,851.
64% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 45013000502
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45013000502?
Census tract 45013000502 in Burton scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 45013000502?
Median gross rent is $1,302/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45013000502?
16.5% of residents in tract 45013000502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,516.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45013000502?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 87th, minority 70th, housing 77th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45013000502?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,732 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45013000502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 27.48% of renter households, peaking at 36.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 45013000502 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 12.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45013000502 compare to Burton overall?
Tract 45013000502 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Burton at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Burton; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Burton
Top eight tracts in Burton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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Burton
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Beaufort County
Parent state ↑
South Carolina
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