Waterford Plantation Eviction Risk: Lower , Carolina Forest
Tract 45051060209 · Horry County, SC · pop 7,857 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
45051060209 is a census tract in the Waterford Plantation area of Carolina Forest, SC. It scores 3.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 7,857 residents. Against Horry County at 44.6%, about one in five of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Carolina Forest and the region
Centroid at 33.7719, -78.9475 · click any tract to drill in
Why Waterford Plantation scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Waterford Plantation compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 40%Socioeconomic
- 22%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
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)
- 1,187Total filings over 5 yrs
- 35.46%Avg annual filing rate
- 45.3%Peak (2014)
- 287Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.2%Food insecurity
- 5.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 9.6%No health insurance
- 16.7%Frequent mental distress
- 26.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Waterford Plantation
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.5/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
The voucher gap is 17.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,187 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 45.3% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 35.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Carolina Forest
Top eight tracts in Carolina Forest ranked by composite eviction-risk score.