Lamp Post Eviction Risk: Lower , Inman

Cost burden runs 53% here against 42.3% across Spartanburg County. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.

Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The voucher gap is 14.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

It tracks the Spartanburg County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,386, close to the Inman average.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $70,714.

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