Belmont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbia

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

At $849 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Columbia commands. Housing insecurity runs 29.6% against 14.2% nationally.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Richland County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 1,658 evictions over 5 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 31.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 27.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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