Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Heathwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Columbia
Tract 45079002400 · Richland County, SC · pop 4,034 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 45079002400 in the Heathwood area of Columbia, SC reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,034 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 17%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units1,959
Renter share31.9%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate5.1%
Median income$107,813
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
6
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
13
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbia and the region
Centroid at 34.0018, -80.9684 · click any tract to drill in
Why Heathwood scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Columbia
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.9
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
5.1% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,574 rent vs county FMR
7.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Columbia
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Columbia
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Columbia
3.0
How Heathwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 10
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 1%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 161Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.19%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.0%Peak (2013)
- 39Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 34% over the past 5 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Heathwood. 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.
- 5.4%Housing insecurity
- 3.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.3%Food insecurity
- 2.6%SNAP enrollment
- 3.7%Transit barriers
- 5.9%No health insurance
- 12.0%Frequent mental distress
- 21.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Heathwood
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. At $1,574 a month, rents run 31% over what the rest of Columbia commands.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
SNAP participation runs 2.6% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 21.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
It sits 1.2 points below the Richland County average of 4.2. Housing insecurity runs 5.4% against 14.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 161 evictions over 5 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 7.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 45079002400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45079002400?
Census tract 45079002400 in the Heathwood 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 45079002400?
Median gross rent is $1,574/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 45079002400?
5.1% of residents in tract 45079002400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,034.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 45079002400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 21th, minority 19th, housing 21th.
Q5
Is tract 45079002400 considered part of Heathwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45079002400 fall within Heathwood (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45079002400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 161 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 45079002400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.19% of renter households, peaking at 7.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 45079002400 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.4% 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. 3.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 45079002400 compare to Columbia overall?
Tract 45079002400 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Columbia at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Columbia eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 45079002400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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