Scanlonville Eviction Risk: Lower , Mount Pleasant

32% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Charleston County average of 45.9%. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 5.5% against 14.2% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points below the Charleston County average of 3.7. Average gross rent is $1,894, 12% below the Mount Pleasant average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 19% 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 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $155,707, annual rent is just 15%.

Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

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