Saltgrass Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Cost burden runs 53% here against 45.9% across Charleston County. SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Charleston County average of 3.7 closely. Average gross rent is $1,819, close to the Charleston average.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $82,730. 37% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.