Dorchester Crossing Eviction Risk: Lower , Summerville

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Court records carry 962 eviction filings across 6 observed years. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 131.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 77.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

It tracks the Dorchester County average of 3.5 closely. Average gross rent is $1,612, close to the Summerville average.

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.