Vandalia Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 43%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 37.4% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $33,024, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Housing insecurity runs 26.9% against 14.2% nationally. At $1,025 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Charleston commands. It sits 0.7 points above the Kanawha County average of 3.9.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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