Summerville Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 30% here against 43.4% across Dorchester County. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 489 filings here across 6 tracked years. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 28.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 18.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 6.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Dorchester County average of 3.5 closely.

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.