Goose Creek Eviction Risk: Lower

99% 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. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Berkeley County at 37.8%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Set annual rent against average income of $66,681 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

The filing record is not thin: 2 evictions over 2 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 0.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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