Dorchester Crossing Eviction Risk: Lower , Summerville

The heaviest input here is economic stress at 3.8/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Summerville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Dorchester County average of 4.8 and below the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,180 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 24.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 37.8% of renter households in 2010.

In CDC survey modeling, about 17.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.