Batesburg-Leesville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Lexington County average of 37.2%.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Against the Lexington County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Court records carry 150 eviction filings across 5 observed years. At $832 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Batesburg-Leesville commands. The worst year on record was 2010, when 13.1% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 12.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $56,944, annual rent is just 18%. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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