Ware Shoals Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Laurens County at 36.0%, 22% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.1/10.

The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 107 filings here across 5 tracked years. At $744 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Ware Shoals commands.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 13.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 9.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 16% 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 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.