Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Kilbourne Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Forest Acres
Tract 45079001200 · Richland County, SC · pop 2,027 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 45079001200 sits in the Kilbourne Heights area of Columbia eviction risk, SC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 2,027 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units833
Renter share23.3%
SVI overall0.21
Poverty rate2.9%
Median income$131,192
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Forest Acres and the region
Centroid at 34.0125, -80.9940 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kilbourne Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Forest Acres
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.9
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
2.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,203 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Forest Acres
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Forest Acres
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Forest Acres
3.0
How Kilbourne Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 10%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 8%Grade A
- 17%Grade B
- 4%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 90Total filings over 5 yrs
- 10.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.0%Peak (2011)
- 11Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 48% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kilbourne Heights. 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.
- 5.9%Housing insecurity
- 3.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.8%Food insecurity
- 3.0%SNAP enrollment
- 3.9%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 12.3%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kilbourne Heights
The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 3.0% against 15.2% nationally.
Against the Richland County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Cost burden runs 56% here against 49.7% across Richland County.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 90 filings here across 5 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Filings peaked in 2011 at 16.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 10.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 45079001200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45079001200?
Census tract 45079001200 in the Kilbourne Heights neighborhood 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 45079001200?
Median gross rent is $1,203/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45079001200?
2.9% of residents in tract 45079001200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,027.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45079001200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 21th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 14th, household 85th, minority 30th, housing 10th.
Q5
Is tract 45079001200 considered part of Kilbourne Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45079001200 fall within Kilbourne Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45079001200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 90 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45079001200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.88% of renter households, peaking at 16.0% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45079001200 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.9% 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. 3.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45079001200 compare to Forest Acres overall?
Tract 45079001200 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Forest Acres at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Forest Acres; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 45079001200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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/ 10 · Moderate
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