Ridgecrest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Clemson

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.1/10.

SNAP participation runs 2.9% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 5.7% against 14.2% nationally. Against Pickens County at 45.1%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $1,099 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Clemson commands. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $89,816, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Pickens County average of 4.0 closely. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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