Greenwood Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.7 points above the Greenwood County average of 4.1. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Against Greenwood County at 38.4%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.2% against 11.3% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $797, close to the Greenwood average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $34,788.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.