Halsey Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Charleston

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Food insecurity runs 6.1% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 5.6% against 14.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 46 evictions over 4 years of observation. It sits 0.7 points below the Charleston County average of 3.7.

Average gross rent is $1,901, 10% above the Charleston average. The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $132,422, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.