Saluda Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint 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. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.7/10.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.2 points above the Saluda County average of 4.1.

Food insecurity runs 28.8% against 17.8% nationally. Cost burden runs 41% here against 36.0% across Saluda County. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $785, close to the Saluda average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $42,217.

45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.