Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Harvest Glen Eviction Risk: Moderate , West Columbia
Tract 45063020505 · Lexington County, SC · pop 3,881 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 45063020505 covers part of the Harvest Glen area of West Columbia, SC, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,881. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,573
Renter share37.7%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate20.4%
Median income$53,028
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
60
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across West Columbia and the region
Centroid at 33.9923, -81.0921 · click any tract to drill in
Why Harvest Glen scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from West Columbia
4.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.5
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
20.4% poverty · this tract
5.1
Supply constraint
$928 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from West Columbia
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from West Columbia
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from West Columbia
6.3
How Harvest Glen compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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)
- 988Total filings over 5 yrs
- 26.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.7%Peak (2010)
- 208Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 5 months.
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.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 11.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.7%Food insecurity
- 15.3%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 18.8%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 35.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Harvest Glen
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Lexington County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.
Average gross rent is $928, 23% below the West Columbia average. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.
Cost burden runs 31% here against 37.2% across Lexington County. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 988 evictions over 5 years of observation.
Adults with no health insurance runs 18.8% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2010 at 24.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 26.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8/10. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 45063020505
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45063020505?
Census tract 45063020505 in the Harvest Glen neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 45063020505?
Median gross rent is $928/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45063020505?
20.4% of residents in tract 45063020505 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,881.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45063020505?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 61th, minority 67th, housing 84th.
Q5
Is tract 45063020505 considered part of Harvest Glen?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45063020505 fall within Harvest Glen (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45063020505?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 988 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45063020505 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 26.20% of renter households, peaking at 24.7% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45063020505 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.2% 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. 11.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45063020505 compare to West Columbia overall?
Tract 45063020505 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of West Columbia at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from West Columbia eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in West Columbia
Top eight tracts in West Columbia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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