Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Forest Ridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Berea
Tract 45045003706 · Greenville County, SC · pop 3,418 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 45045003706 covers part of the Forest Ridge area of Berea, SC, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units1,256
Renter share53.2%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate15.4%
Median income$48,333
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
85
th percentile
High
Within state
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Berea and the region
Centroid at 34.8819, -82.4572 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest Ridge scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Berea
4.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.1
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
15.4% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$1,056 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Berea
7.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Berea
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Berea
8.0
How Forest Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 79%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1,284Total filings 2020-21
- 18.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 16.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.09×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Greenville, SC as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.7%Housing insecurity
- 15.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.9%Food insecurity
- 22.2%SNAP enrollment
- 14.9%Transit barriers
- 26.0%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 42.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Forest Ridge
Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Greenville County at 45.8%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 26.0% against 11.3% nationally.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8/10. Against the Greenville County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.
SNAP participation runs 22.2% against 15.2% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 10/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,056, close to the Berea 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 45045003706
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45045003706?
Census tract 45045003706 in the Forest Ridge neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 45045003706?
Median gross rent is $1,056/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45045003706?
15.4% of residents in tract 45045003706 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,418.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45045003706?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 100th, minority 79th, housing 95th.
Q5
Is tract 45045003706 considered part of Forest Ridge?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45045003706 fall within Forest Ridge (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 45045003706 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.09× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Greenville eviction risk, SC), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45045003706 struggle to pay rent?
About 23.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 15.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45045003706 compare to Berea overall?
Tract 45045003706 scores 5.3/10, higher than the parent city of Berea at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Berea eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Berea
Top eight tracts in Berea ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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