West Ashley Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

87% 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. Against Charleston County at 45.9%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 869 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 28.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 26.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Charleston County average of 3.7 closely. Average gross rent is $1,589, close to the Charleston average.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $87,500.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.