Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Cross Hill Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 45059921002 · Laurens County, SC · pop 3,175 · 13% of tract blocks fall in Cross Hill
Census tract 45059921002 covers part of Cross Hill, SC, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 63%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 4%
Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units1,209
Renter share11.2%
SVI overall0.46
Poverty rate13.0%
Median income$49,861
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cross Hill and the region
Centroid at 34.2923, -81.9568 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cross Hill scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cross Hill
4.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.4
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
13.0% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$923 rent vs county FMR
4.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cross Hill
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cross Hill
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cross Hill
4.1
How Cross Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 54%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%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)
- 80Total filings over 5 yrs
- 9.46%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.4%Peak (2014)
- 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 29% 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.
- 11.3%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.8%Food insecurity
- 9.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 10.9%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 37.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Cross Hill
Against Laurens County at 36.0%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Average gross rent is $923, 24% above the Cross Hill average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 80 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Against the Laurens County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2014, when 12.4% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 9.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 11% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.1/10. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 45059921002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45059921002?
Census tract 45059921002 in Cross Hill scores 3/10 (Lower 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 45059921002?
Median gross rent is $923/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45059921002?
13.0% of residents in tract 45059921002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,175.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45059921002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 46th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 54th, minority 53th, housing 30th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45059921002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 80 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45059921002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.46% of renter households, peaking at 12.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 45059921002 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.3% 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. 7.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45059921002 compare to Cross Hill overall?
Tract 45059921002 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Cross Hill at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cross Hill; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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