Charleston Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Court records carry 90 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

It sits 0.6 points above the Berkeley County average of 3.8. The worst year on record was 2010, when 11.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 10.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 5% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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