Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Folly Beach Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 45019002004 · Charleston County, SC · pop 684 · 93% of tract blocks fall in Folly Beach
With a score of 3/10, tract 45019002004 in Folly Beach, SC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 684. Cost burden runs 100% here against 45.9% across Charleston County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units381
Renter share11.3%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate5.2%
Median income$97,891
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
25
th percentile
Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Folly Beach and the region
Centroid at 32.6591, -79.9360 · click any tract to drill in
Why Folly Beach scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Folly Beach
6.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
5.2% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,930 rent vs county FMR
5.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Folly Beach
7.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Folly Beach
2.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Folly Beach
6.3
How Folly Beach compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 0%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%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)
- 65Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.36%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.2%Peak (2013)
- 13Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 44Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Charleston, SC as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 5.0%Housing insecurity
- 3.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.9%Food insecurity
- 3.0%SNAP enrollment
- 3.6%Transit barriers
- 5.5%No health insurance
- 11.1%Frequent mental distress
- 23.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Folly Beach
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10. SNAP participation runs 3.0% against 15.2% nationally.
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. Food insecurity runs 5.9% against 17.8% nationally.
Court records carry 65 eviction filings across 4 observed years. It sits 0.7 points below the Charleston County average of 3.7.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 6.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.3/10. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.
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 45019002004
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45019002004?
Census tract 45019002004 in Folly Beach scores 3/10 (Lower 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 45019002004?
Median gross rent is $1,930/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 100% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45019002004?
5.2% of residents in tract 45019002004 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 684.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45019002004?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 6th, minority 0th, housing 20th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45019002004?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 65 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 45019002004 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.36% of renter households, peaking at 6.2% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 45019002004 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Charleston eviction risk, SC), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45019002004 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.0% 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. 3.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45019002004 compare to Folly Beach overall?
Tract 45019002004 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Folly Beach at 3.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Folly Beach; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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