Ridgecrest Eviction Risk: Elevated , Spartanburg
Tract 45083020701 · Spartanburg County, SC · pop 3,596 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
The Ridgecrest neighborhood of Spartanburg anchors census tract 45083020701, which lands at 5.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 54% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,000 a month against an average household income of $32,210 a year, roughly 37% of income at the averages. About 57% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Spartanburg and the region
Centroid at 34.9279, -81.9513 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ridgecrest scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ridgecrest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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)
- 204Total filings over 1 yrs
- 26.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.4%Peak (2010)
- 204Filings in 2010 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 31.0%Housing insecurity
- 23.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.6%Food insecurity
- 36.1%SNAP enrollment
- 20.5%Transit barriers
- 18.5%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 45.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ridgecrest
The score leans hardest on economic stress 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 Spartanburg eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Spartanburg County average of 5.5 and above the South Carolina statewide average of 5.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 90th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 204 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 26.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 26.4% of renter households in 2010.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 45083020701
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Highest-risk tracts in Spartanburg
Top eight tracts in Spartanburg ranked by composite eviction-risk score.