Stuart Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Myrtle Beach
Tract 45051050902 · Horry County, SC · pop 4,160 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
In the Stuart Square area of Myrtle Beach, census tract 45051050902 scores $1/10 for eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #52,453 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 42% of renter households, a severe level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $991 a month against an average household income of $36,530 a year, roughly 33% of income at the averages. Renters make up 43% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Myrtle Beach and the region
Centroid at 33.6979, -78.9149 · click any tract to drill in
Why Stuart Square scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Stuart Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 28.2%Housing insecurity
- 20.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.3%Food insecurity
- 33.5%SNAP enrollment
- 19.0%Transit barriers
- 29.9%No health insurance
- 22.0%Frequent mental distress
- 44.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Stuart Square
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.3/10. 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 Myrtle Beach eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Horry County average of 5.3 and below the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 28.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 20.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 84th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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