Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally
Watson Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Enoree
Tract 45083023700 · Spartanburg County, SC · pop 4,188 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 45083023700 sits in the Watson Hills area of Enoree, SC, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.4/10. 55% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units1,853
Renter share21.8%
SVI overall0.45
Poverty rate17.0%
Median income$57,557
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
67
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Enoree and the region
Centroid at 34.6789, -81.9163 · click any tract to drill in
Why Watson Hills scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Enoree
4.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.6
State political climate
South Carolina legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
17.0% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Enoree
1.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Enoree
5.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Enoree
2.1
How Watson Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 45
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 58%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 32Total filings over 1 yrs
- 9.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.3%Peak (2010)
- 32Filings in 2010 (latest validated)
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 8.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 10.0%SNAP enrollment
- 8.3%Transit barriers
- 12.9%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 35.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Watson Hills
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. Cost burden runs 57% here against 42.3% across Spartanburg County. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.4/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 32 filings here across 1 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 9.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 9.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5/10. It tracks the Spartanburg County average of 4.0 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 45083023700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 45083023700?
Census tract 45083023700 in the Watson Hills neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the poverty rate in tract 45083023700?
17.0% of residents in tract 45083023700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,188.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 45083023700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 45th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 58th, minority 25th, housing 35th.
Q4
Is tract 45083023700 considered part of Watson Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 45083023700 fall within Watson Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 45083023700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 32 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 45083023700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.33% of renter households, peaking at 9.3% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 45083023700 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 8.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 45083023700 compare to Enoree overall?
Tract 45083023700 scores 4.4/10, higher than the parent city of Enoree at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Enoree; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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