Melrose Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Columbia

Cost burden runs 64% here against 49.7% across Richland County. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

24% 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 softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 8.2% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 146 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 11.3% 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 9.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 35% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.