Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbia

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 958 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $1,054, 12% below the Columbia average. Filings peaked in 2011 at 21.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Columbia. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 20.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Richland County average of 4.2 closely.

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.