Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Ketchuptown Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 45051010100 · Horry County, SC · pop 2,759 · 3% of tract blocks fall in Ketchuptown
45051010100 is a census tract in Ketchuptown, SC. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,759 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units1,109
Renter share30.7%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate33.9%
Median income$60,393
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
79
th percentile
High
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Ketchuptown and the region
Centroid at 34.1741, -79.0835 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ketchuptown scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Ketchuptown
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.3
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
33.9% poverty · this tract
8.5
Supply constraint
$827 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Ketchuptown
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Ketchuptown
1.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Ketchuptown
1.6
How Ketchuptown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 66Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.6%Peak (2014)
- 21Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 62% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 16.8%Housing insecurity
- 12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.3%Food insecurity
- 18.4%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 15.7%No health insurance
- 19.6%Frequent mental distress
- 39.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ketchuptown
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1/10.
Court records carry 66 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Severe burden reaches 8%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
It sits 0.8 points above the Horry County average of 3.8. Food insecurity runs 25.3% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.6% of renter households.
In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 6.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $60,393, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 45051010100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45051010100?
Census tract 45051010100 in Ketchuptown scores 4.6/10 (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 45051010100?
Median gross rent is $827/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45051010100?
33.9% of residents in tract 45051010100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,759.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45051010100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 51th, minority 38th, housing 54th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45051010100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 66 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45051010100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.57% of renter households, peaking at 5.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 45051010100 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.8% 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. 12.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45051010100 compare to Ketchuptown overall?
Tract 45051010100 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Ketchuptown at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Ketchuptown; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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