Saluda Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbia
Tract 45079010403 · Richland County, SC · pop 3,483 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
How risky is the Saluda Terrace neighborhood of Columbia for landlords? Census tract 45079010403 scores 5.3/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #43,467 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
41% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 9% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,171 monthly, set against $58,577 in average yearly household income, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 56% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbia and the region
Centroid at 34.0222, -81.0849 · click any tract to drill in
Why Saluda Terrace scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Saluda Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 56%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%Housing & transportation
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)
- 2,511Total filings over 5 yrs
- 43.14%Avg annual filing rate
- 56.8%Peak (2012)
- 370Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.5%Housing insecurity
- 10.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.4%Food insecurity
- 10.6%SNAP enrollment
- 9.4%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 27.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Saluda Terrace
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Columbia eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Richland County average of 5.8 and in line with the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,511 eviction filings here over 5 tracked years, with about 43.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 56.8% of renter households in 2012.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 60th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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